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I submitted myself to His will, and dedicated myself to discovering His truth and carrying out His works. If John McCain wants to follow George Bush with more tough talk and bad strategy, that is his choice - but it is not the change we need.
That history helps explain the wealth and income gap between black and white, and the concentrated pockets of poverty that persists in so many of today's urban and rural communities. No health care? The market will fix it. These needs will be met only if we act boldly in the years ahead; and if we understand that the challenges we face are shared, and our failure to meet them will hurt us all.
They all have different stories and reasons. I know there is debate about this issue.
It got hijacked. And it offends our conscience. Like the anger within the black community, these resentments aren't always expressed in polite company. In the face of that young student who sleeps just three hours before working the night shift, I think about my mom, who raised my sister and me on her own while she worked and earned her degree; who once turned to food stamps but was still able to send us to the best schools in the country with the help of student loans and scholarships. We are the party of Kennedy. That is not how moral authority is claimed; that is how it is surrendered.
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. It means continuing to insist on a full measure of justice in every aspect of American life. She poured everything she had into me. 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. And just as it devastates Palestinian families, the continuing humanitarian crisis in Gaza does not serve Israel's security; neither does the continuing lack of opportunity in the West Bank.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.