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And so long as we're not doing everything in our personal and collective power to solve them, we know the conscience of our nation cannot rest. These are some of the challenges that test our conscience - as Americans and people of faith. And we will welcome all elected, peaceful governments - provided they govern with respect for all their people.
The questions I had didn't magically disappear. They weren't simply a religious leader's effort to speak out against perceived injustice. But it is where we start. It should ensure opportunity not just for those with the most money and influence, but for every American who's willing to work. Change means a tax code that doesn't reward the lobbyists who wrote it, but the American workers and small businesses who deserve it.
And then another one. It is that promise that has always set this country apart - that through hard work and sacrifice, each of us can pursue our individual dreams but still come together as one American family, to ensure that the next generation can pursue their dreams as well. That won't keep America safe. 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. Let us keep that promise - that American promise - and in the words of Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known.
That has been my experience at Trinity. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for.
I'm talking about something more substantial. Now Ashley might have made a different choice. 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. For human history has often been a record of nations and tribes subjugating one another to serve their own interests.
God bless you.