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"If you're organizing churches," they said, "it might be helpful if you went to church once in a while." And I thought, "Well, I guess that makes sense." The challenges we face require tough choices, and Democrats as well as Republicans will need to cast off the worn-out ideas and politics of the past. No single speech can eradicate years of mistrust, nor can I answer in the time that I have all the complex questions that brought us to this point. That is why I ordered the removal of our combat brigades by next August.
They stood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, as the blows of billy clubs rained down. We have to do what we can, knowing it's hard and not swinging from a naive idealism to a bitter defeatism - but rather, accepting the fact that we're not going to solve every problem overnight, but we can still make a difference.
Now, some of you may have heard me talk about the Joshua generation. But Moses says: What I am commanding you is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. I suppose the politically safe thing would be to move on from this episode and just hope that it fades into the woodwork. When Washington doesn't work, all its promises seem empty. At the same time, Israelis must acknowledge that just as Israel's right to exist cannot be denied, neither can Palestine's.
Out of work? Tough luck. In the young people who voted for the first time, and in those who got involved again after a very long time. "And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back." It's a belief that pulsed in the cradle of civilization, and that still beats in the heart of billions.
My mother, whose parents were non-practicing Baptists and Methodists, was one of the most spiritual souls I ever knew. So let's rededicate ourselves to a new kind of politics - a politics of conscience. But it also comes from my own American story. And I will restore our moral standing, so that America is once again that last, best hope for all who are called to the cause of freedom, who long for lives of peace, and who yearn for a better future.
Thank you.