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More work to do for the workers I met in Galesburg, Ill., who are losing their union jobs at the Maytag plant that's moving to Mexico, and now are having to compete with their own children for jobs that pay seven bucks an hour. I have made a solemn pledge that I will sign a universal health care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family's premiums by up to $2500 a year. That is not how moral authority is claimed; that is how it is surrendered.
It wasn't until after college, when I went to Chicago to work as a community organizer for a group of Christian churches, that I confronted my own spiritual dilemma. And yet, it has only been in the last couple of weeks that the discussion of race in this campaign has taken a particularly divisive turn. Let us be our brother's keeper, Scripture tells us. I am a Christian, but my father came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims. This bond is unbreakable. We will open centers of scientific excellence in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and appoint new Science Envoys to collaborate on programs that develop new sources of energy, create green jobs, digitize records, clean water, and grow new crops.
We want to talk about how to bring them home from a war that never should've been authorized and never should've been waged, and we want to talk about how we'll show our patriotism by caring for them, and their families, and giving them the benefits they have earned. Tell that to the military families who shoulder their burdens silently as they watch their loved ones leave for their third or fourth or fifth tour of duty. If your hopes have been dashed again and again, then it's best to stop hoping, and settle for what you already know.
It was because of these newfound understandings that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity one day and affirm my Christian faith. Too much blood has been shed.
They've worked hard all their lives, many times only to see their jobs shipped overseas or their pension dumped after a lifetime of labor. Violent extremists have exploited these tensions in a small but potent minority of Muslims. Around the world, the Jewish people were persecuted for centuries, and anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust. I understand those who protest that some countries have weapons that others do not. It's a faith in other people, and it's what brought me here today.
Thank you.