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Now let there be no doubt. In Washington, they call this the Ownership Society, but what it really means is - you're on your own. And it is that promise that forty five years ago today, brought Americans from every corner of this land to stand together on a Mall in Washington, before Lincoln's Memorial, and hear a young preacher from Georgia speak of his dream. The third source of tension is our shared interest in the rights and responsibilities of nations on nuclear weapons.
We have real enemies in the world. She had this enormous capacity for wonder, and lived by the Golden Rule. Instead, they expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country - a view that sees white racism as endemic, and that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America; a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam. Most working- and middle-class white Americans don't feel that they have been particularly privileged by their race. But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we'll be talking about some other distraction. Together, you represent the harmony between tradition and progress.
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. But the failure to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush.
Change happens because the American people demand it - because they rise up and insist on new ideas and new leadership, a new politics for a new time. In the Republicans who never thought they'd pick up a Democratic ballot, but did. And finally, just as America can never tolerate violence by extremists, we must never alter our principles.
They are anxious about their futures, and feel their dreams slipping away; in an era of stagnant wages and global competition, opportunity comes to be seen as a zero sum game, in which your dreams come at my expense. And then another one. It's a promise that says each of us has the freedom to make of our own lives what we will, but that we also have the obligation to treat each other with dignity and respect. You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq. So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, and who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity. When a new flu infects one human being, all are at risk.
Thank you, and God bless America.