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We are the party of Roosevelt. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security.
For alongside our famous individualism, there's another ingredient in the American saga. Board of Education, and the inferior education they provided, then and now, helps explain the pervasive achievement gap between today's black and white students. I know there are those who dismiss such beliefs as happy talk. And it is my first duty as President to protect the American people. Unlike Afghanistan, Iraq was a war of choice that provoked strong differences in my country and around the world. And finally, just as America can never tolerate violence by extremists, we must never alter our principles.
That does not mean we should ignore sources of tension. America respects the right of all peaceful and law-abiding voices to be heard around the world, even if we disagree with them. I reject the view of some in the West that a woman who chooses to cover her hair is somehow less equal, but I do believe that a woman who is denied an education is denied equality.
The day after Pearl Harbor my grandfather signed up for duty; joined Patton's army, marched across Europe. Some are eager to stoke the flames of division, and to stand in the way of progress.
It wasn't until after college, when I went to Chicago to work as a community organizer for a group of Christian churches, that I confronted my own spiritual dilemma. Understanding this reality requires a reminder of how we arrived at this point. But we do need to remind ourselves that so many of the disparities that exist in the African-American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. And yet, to wish away the resentments of white Americans, to label them as misguided or even racist, without recognizing they are grounded in legitimate concerns - this too widens the racial divide, and blocks the path to understanding. We measure the strength of our economy not by the number of billionaires we have or the profits of the Fortune 500, but by whether someone with a good idea can take a risk and start a new business, or whether the waitress who lives on tips can take a day off to look after a sick kid without losing her job - an economy that honors the dignity of work. The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and Independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.