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And slowly, I came to realize that something was missing as well - that without an anchor for my beliefs, without a commitment to a particular community of faith, at some level I would always remain apart, and alone. The children of America are not those kids, they are our kids, and we will not let them fall behind in a 21st century economy. This time we want to talk about the shuttered mills that once provided a decent life for men and women of every race, and the homes for sale that once belonged to Americans from every religion, every region, every walk of life. We are taking concrete actions to change course. The third source of tension is our shared interest in the rights and responsibilities of nations on nuclear weapons.
Our conscience cannot rest so long as nearly 45 million Americans don't have health insurance and the millions more who do are going bankrupt trying to pay for it. Our conscience cannot rest until we not only secure our borders, but give the 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country a chance to earn their citizenship by paying a fine and waiting in line behind all those who came here legally. A lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one's family, contributed to the erosion of black families - a problem that welfare policies for many years may have worsened. This country is more decent than one where a woman in Ohio, on the brink of retirement, finds herself one illness away from disaster after a lifetime of hard work. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from.
And I'm glad to see that. I'll recruit an army of new teachers, and pay them higher salaries and give them more support.
And when these battles were overtaken by others and when the wars they opposed were waged and won, these faithful foot soldiers for justice kept marching. It's not consistent with our traditions of justice and fairness. But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we'll be talking about some other distraction. And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers - Thomas Jefferson - kept in his personal library.
It's that we all have it within our power to make this a better world. He strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding, and baptized my children. But what we know - what we have seen - is that America can change.
Thank you, and God bless America.