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It seems to me that each day, thousands of Americans are going about their lives - dropping the kids off at school, driving to work, shopping at the mall, trying to stay on their diets, trying to kick a cigarette habit - and they're coming to the realization that something is missing. 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. Despite the temptation to view my candidacy through a purely racial lens, we won commanding victories in states with some of the whitest populations in the country. 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.
And Ashley asks him why he's there. I do so recognizing that change cannot happen overnight.
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. He strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding, and baptized my children. And Ashley said that when she was nine years old, her mother got cancer. Just as Muslims do not fit a crude stereotype, America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. But it should be their choice. And I want to particularly say this to young people of every faith, in every country - you, more than anyone, have the ability to remake this world.
But we also know our conscience cannot rest so long as the war goes on in Iraq. But it does find voice in the barbershop or around the kitchen table. There is a young, twenty-three year old white woman named Ashley Baia who organized for our campaign in Florence, South Carolina. I'll make it easier for the American people to afford these new cars. Progress in the daily lives of the Palestinian people must be part of a road to peace, and Israel must take concrete steps to enable such progress.
For centuries, black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation. I know there has been controversy about the promotion of democracy in recent years, and much of this controversy is connected to the war in Iraq.
Thank you.