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They stood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, as the blows of billy clubs rained down. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton's Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas. Not this time. Born into poverty? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps - even if you don't have boots.
What would be needed were Americans in successive generations who were willing to do their part - through protests and struggle, on the streets and in the courts, through a civil war and civil disobedience and always at great risk - to narrow that gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time. We measure progress in the 23 million new jobs that were created when Bill Clinton was President - when the average American family saw its income go up $7,500 instead of down $2,000 like it has under George Bush. She poured everything she had into me. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail. The sooner the extremists are isolated and unwelcome in Muslim communities, the sooner we will all be safer. The Internet and television can bring knowledge and information, but also offensive sexuality and mindless violence.
It's not consistent with our traditions of justice and fairness. We measure progress by how many people can find a job that pays the mortgage; whether you can put a little extra money away at the end of each month so you can someday watch your child receive her college diploma.
We measure progress in the 23 million new jobs that were created when Bill Clinton was President - when the average American family saw its income go up $7,500 instead of down $2,000 like it has under George Bush. 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.
I learned that my sins could be redeemed. A lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one's family, contributed to the erosion of black families - a problem that welfare policies for many years may have worsened. 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. The fourth issue that I will address is democracy. The richness of religious diversity must be upheld - whether it is for Maronites in Lebanon or the Copts in Egypt.
Thank you.