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The hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores. This time we want to talk about the men and women of every color and creed who serve together, and fight together, and bleed together under the same proud flag. Now is the time to finally keep the promise of affordable, accessible health care for every single American. Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people. Our problems must be dealt with through partnership; progress must be shared. No matter where it takes hold, government of the people and by the people sets a single standard for all who hold power: you must maintain your power through consent, not coercion; you must respect the rights of minorities, and participate with a spirit of tolerance and compromise; you must place the interests of your people and the legitimate workings of the political process above your party.
There was even a time when the Christian Coalition determined that its number one legislative priority was tax cuts for the rich. Ours is a promise that says government cannot solve all our problems, but what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves - protect us from harm and provide every child a decent education; keep our water clean and our toys safe; invest in new schools and new roads and new science and technology. I'll make it easier for the American people to afford these new cars. If you don't, you'll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves. And yet Al Qaeda chose to ruthlessly murder these people, claimed credit for the attack, and even now states their determination to kill on a massive scale.
And in all these ways, they helped make this country more decent and more just. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt's advancement.
That among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. More to do for the father that I met who was losing his job and choking back the tears, wondering how he would pay $4,500 a month for the drugs his son needs without the health benefits that he counted on. Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. In the following century, men and women of faith waded into the battles over prison reform and temperance, public education and women's rights - and above all, abolition. I do so recognizing that change cannot happen overnight.
John Kerry believes in an America where all Americans can afford the same health coverage our politicians in Washington have for themselves. Segregated schools were, and are, inferior schools; we still haven't fixed them, fifty years after Brown v. And you know what - it's worked before. I've seen it in the workers who would rather cut their hours back a day than see their friends lose their jobs, in the soldiers who re-enlist after losing a limb, in the good neighbors who take a stranger in when a hurricane strikes and the floodwaters rise. When one nation pursues a nuclear weapon, the risk of nuclear attack rises for all nations. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive, but it is being challenged in many different ways.
Thank you very much everybody.