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Let us be our brother's keeper, Scripture tells us. Individual responsibility and mutual responsibility - that's the essence of America's promise. It is time for these settlements to stop.
If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for their prescription drugs, and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandparent. They saw that I knew the Scriptures and that many of the values I held and that propelled me in my work were values they shared. If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums. But what the people heard instead - people of every creed and color, from every walk of life - is that in America, our destiny is inextricably linked. I know there is debate about this issue. On economic development, we will create a new corps of business volunteers to partner with counterparts in Muslim-majority countries.
And yet words on a parchment would not be enough to deliver slaves from bondage, or provide men and women of every color and creed their full rights and obligations as citizens of the United States. What's remarkable is not how many failed in the face of discrimination, but rather how many men and women overcame the odds; how many were able to make a way out of no way for those like me who would come after them. Let us find that common stake we all have in one another, and let our politics reflect that spirit as well. In the young people who voted for the first time, and in those who got involved again after a very long time. Indeed, faith should bring us together.
But kneeling beneath that cross on the South Side, I felt I heard God's spirit beckoning me. More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations. 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 commitment is at the core of the Treaty, and it must be kept for all who fully abide by it. Finally, I want to discuss economic development and opportunity.
That's not simply a matter of policy or ideology - it's a moral commitment. This is a difficult responsibility to embrace. So let me be clear: no system of government can or should be imposed upon one nation by any other.
Thank you.