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Like the anger within the black community, these resentments aren't always expressed in polite company. In Washington, they call this the Ownership Society, but what it really means is - you're on your own. 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. Over seven years ago, the United States pursued al Qaeda and the Taliban with broad international support.
More to do for the father that I met who was losing his job and choking back the tears, wondering how he would pay $4,500 a month for the drugs his son needs without the health benefits that he counted on. Segregated schools were, and are, inferior schools; we still haven't fixed them, fifty years after Brown v. That is why I strongly reaffirmed America's commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons. Around the world, we can turn dialogue into Interfaith service, so bridges between peoples lead to action - whether it is combating malaria in Africa, or providing relief after a natural disaster.
Back home, my grandmother raised their baby and went to work on a bomber assembly line. 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. This too is part of America's promise - the promise of a democracy where we can find the strength and grace to bridge divides and unite in common effort. It is time for us to act on what everyone knows to be true.
Wright deliver a sermon called "The Audacity of Hope." And during the course of that sermon, he introduced me to someone named Jesus Christ. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787. It requires all Americans to realize that your dreams do not have to come at the expense of my dreams; that investing in the health, welfare, and education of black and brown and white children will ultimately help all of America prosper. We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretense of liberalism.
Louis, and thousands more like her, who has the grades, has the drive, has the will, but doesn't have the money to go to college. There is a young, twenty-three year old white woman named Ashley Baia who organized for our campaign in Florence, South Carolina. That promise is our greatest inheritance. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for. But we should choose the right path, not just the easy path.
God bless you.