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They're looking to relieve a chronic loneliness. But we must also admit that programs alone can't replace parents; that government can't turn off the television and make a child do her homework; that fathers must take more responsibility for providing the love and guidance their children need. The men and women who gathered there could've heard many things.
But she had a healthy skepticism of religion as an institution. So one Sunday, I put on one of the few clean jackets I had, and went over to Trinity United Church of Christ on 95th Street on the South Side of Chicago. And so this will be a difficult debate next week. In Washington, they call this the Ownership Society, but what it really means is - you're on your own. The enduring faith of over a billion people is so much bigger than the narrow hatred of a few.
They held vigils across this country when four little girls were killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church. King delivered his prayer for our country. For eighteen long months, you have stood up, one by one, and said enough to the politics of the past. In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.
As such, Reverend Wright's comments were not only wrong but divisive, divisive at a time when we need unity; racially charged at a time when we need to come together to solve a set of monumental problems - two wars, a terrorist threat, a falling economy, a chronic health care crisis and potentially devastating climate change; problems that are neither black or white or Latino or Asian, but rather problems that confront us all. We meet at one of those defining moments - a moment when our nation is at war, our economy is in turmoil, and the American promise has been threatened once more. The truth is, on issue after issue that would make a difference in your lives - on health care and education and the economy - Senator McCain has been anything but independent. And now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons. That is why we plan to invest $1.5 billion each year over the next five years to partner with Pakistanis to build schools and hospitals, roads and businesses, and hundreds of millions to help those who have been displaced. But it was not violence that won full and equal rights.
The press has scoured every exit poll for the latest evidence of racial polarization, not just in terms of white and black, but black and brown as well. And as someone who watched my mother argue with insurance companies while she lay in bed dying of cancer, I will make certain those companies stop discriminating against those who are sick and need care the most.
Thank you.