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Four years ago, I stood before you and told you my story - of the brief union between a young man from Kenya and a young woman from Kansas who weren't well-off or well-known, but shared a belief that in America, their son could achieve whatever he put his mind to. Now is the time to end this addiction, and to understand that drilling is a stop-gap measure, not a long-term solution. But let us be clear: al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 people on that day.
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. We are a better country than this.
Go into the collar counties around Chicago, and people will tell you they don't want their tax money wasted, by a welfare agency or by the Pentagon. But I will also renew the tough, direct diplomacy that can prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and curb Russian aggression. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. Threatening Israel with destruction - or repeating vile stereotypes about Jews - is deeply wrong, and only serves to evoke in the minds of Israelis this most painful of memories while preventing the peace that the people of this region deserve.
They held vigils across this country when four little girls were killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church. Born into poverty? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps - even if you don't have boots.
There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America - there's the United States of America. It's time for us to change America. She's the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life. There is so much fear, so much mistrust.
God bless you.