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They know those things. We are a better country than this.
Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. Because in the faces of those young veterans who come back from Iraq and Afghanistan, I see my grandfather, who signed up after Pearl Harbor, marched in Patton's Army, and was rewarded by a grateful nation with the chance to go to college on the GI Bill. It's a promise that says the market should reward drive and innovation and generate growth, but that businesses should live up to their responsibilities to create American jobs, look out for American workers, and play by the rules of the road. And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality. The fear and anger that it provoked was understandable, but in some cases, it led us to act contrary to our ideals.
John Kerry believes in the Constitutional freedoms that have made our country the envy of the world, and he will never sacrifice our basic liberties, nor use faith as a wedge to divide us. The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished. Not just with words, but with deeds - by investing in our schools and our communities; by enforcing our civil rights laws and ensuring fairness in our criminal justice system; by providing this generation with ladders of opportunity that were unavailable for previous generations. We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she's playing the race card, or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies. In that time, he's said no to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars, no to investments in renewable energy, no to renewable fuels. For centuries, black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation.
I'll help our auto companies re-tool, so that the fuel-efficient cars of the future are built right here in America. Six million Jews were killed - more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today. We cannot impose peace. Too much blood has been shed.
And yet, I know that, on this night, they look down on me with great pride. And in exchange, I'll ask for higher standards and more accountability. We are the party of Roosevelt.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.