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She was born in a town on the other side of the world, in Kansas. And I think they recognized a part of themselves in me too. 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.
It's been several months now since I announced I was running for president. We are a better country than this. For we have learned from recent experience that when a financial system weakens in one country, prosperity is hurt everywhere. On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland. Instead, it must be a cause for action to help the Palestinian people develop the institutions that will sustain their state; to recognize Israel's legitimacy; and to choose progress over a self-defeating focus on the past. The question, now, is not what Iran is against, but rather what future it wants to build.
Through hard work and perseverance my father got a scholarship to study in a magical place, America, that shone as a beacon of freedom and opportunity to so many who had come before. That's why I've been fighting to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit and the minimum wage. It comes from Deuteronomy 30 when Moses talks to his followers about the challenges they'll find when they reach the Promised Land without him. Four years ago, I stood before you and told you my story - of the brief union between a young man from Kenya and a young woman from Kansas who weren't well-off or well-known, but shared a belief that in America, their son could achieve whatever he put his mind to. Not with so much work to be done. But that same principle must apply to Muslim perceptions of America.
Back home, my grandmother raised their baby and went to work on a bomber assembly line. And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American.
So let's rededicate ourselves to a new kind of politics - a politics of conscience. I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she's playing the race card, or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies. Now is the time to finally meet our moral obligation to provide every child a world-class education, because it will take nothing less to compete in the global economy. It's a story with a simple truth: that violence is a dead end.
Thank you. And may God's peace be upon you.