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Our conscience can't rest so long as 37 million Americans are poor and forgotten by their leaders in Washington and by the media elites. He's still speaking to our Catholic friends - who are holding up a consistent ethic of life that goes beyond abortion - one that includes a respect for life and dignity whether it's in Iraq, in poor neighborhoods, in African villages or even on death row. I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. We were born out of revolution against an empire. It is easier to blame others than to look inward; to see what is different about someone than to find the things we share.
This is the reality in which Reverend Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up. That's the promise of America - the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation; the fundamental belief that I am my brother's keeper; I am my sister's keeper.
It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. Perhaps somebody told her along the way that the source of her mother's problems were blacks who were on welfare and too lazy to work, or Hispanics who were coming into the country illegally. Some are eager to stoke the flames of division, and to stand in the way of progress.
Now is the time to help families with paid sick days and better family leave, because nobody in America should have to choose between keeping their jobs and caring for a sick child or ailing parent. This is important because no development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.
He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack. So doing the Lord's work is a thread that's run through our politics since the very beginning. This time we want to talk about the shuttered mills that once provided a decent life for men and women of every race, and the homes for sale that once belonged to Americans from every religion, every region, every walk of life.
Thank you very much everybody.