Hillary Clinton

good afternoon __PUNCT__

thi is __PUNCT__ as everi dai is __PUNCT__ the dai that the lord hath made so let us rejoic and be glad in it __PUNCT__

it is a great honor for me to be here with all of you todai __PUNCT__

i want to thank dr __PUNCT__ shaw for hi leadership __PUNCT__ i want to thank reverend thurston for hi __PUNCT__ as well __PUNCT__

dr __PUNCT__ t __PUNCT__ dewitt smith jr __PUNCT__ for hi stewardship and leadership and dr __PUNCT__ p.t robertson __PUNCT__

these four leader __PUNCT__ bring_peopl togeth todai __PUNCT__ deserv our appreci and our prayer __PUNCT__

it is a challeng but necessari endeavor __PUNCT__

i should begin by acknowledg that my husband is a baptist and i have learn dure our marriag from sit around the kitchen_tabl that baptist have quit the tradit of disagr __PUNCT__

bill and i have been talk and debat sinc we first met over thirti __PUNCT__ five year_ago __PUNCT__

sometim the decibel level can rise __PUNCT__ depend on the passion of the moment __PUNCT__ but as you know __PUNCT__ that is how we learn __PUNCT__ by explor our differ __PUNCT__

by come to understand that what we share is so much bigger than what separ us __PUNCT__

that is how we come to a place of uniti and that is what you ar do here __PUNCT__ thi week __PUNCT__

i understand that thi is onli the second time that the four convent have come togeth as on __PUNCT__

you ar here guid in the spirit of hope by the on who is faith to us in all thing __PUNCT__

as we gather todai i am remind of the scriptur from hebrew __PUNCT__ which tell us __PUNCT__ let us hold unswervingli to the hope we profess __PUNCT__ for he who come is faith and let us consid how we mai serv on anoth on toward love and good_deed __PUNCT__

let us not give up meet togeth __PUNCT__ as some ar in the habit of do __PUNCT__ but let us encourag on anoth and all the more as you see the dai approach __PUNCT__

i grew up in a differ faith tradit __PUNCT__ as a methodist __PUNCT__

i know there is at least on bishop from my tradit here who came to show solidar __PUNCT__

i appreci that __PUNCT__

much like all of you __PUNCT__ i wa taught from a veri earli_ag that my faith carri with it certain oblig __PUNCT__

it wa my youth minist who took us to see dr __PUNCT__ king preach about our respons to our fellow_citizen __PUNCT__

it wa that famou sermon __PUNCT__ stai awak though the revolut __PUNCT__

it transform my life as it did so mani other who had the great honor to hear directli from dr __PUNCT__ king the call to be more than on our own __PUNCT__ ani of us could be __PUNCT__

i have been a prai person __PUNCT__ luckili __PUNCT__ my entir life __PUNCT__

i often ask whether or not i am __PUNCT__

i am quick to tell peopl that i wa rais by parent who were prayer and by a church that guid me but had i not been a prai person __PUNCT__ on week in the white_hous would turn me into a prai person __PUNCT__

everydai i try to act on the lesson of my faith __PUNCT__ to reach that higher place __PUNCT__

yet __PUNCT__ so often __PUNCT__ like all of us __PUNCT__ i fall_short __PUNCT__

but each new dai __PUNCT__ i keep strive and prai to work_harder __PUNCT__ to correct my imperfect __PUNCT__ to improv on the dai befor and on the dai befor that __PUNCT__

that what i tri to do in my person_life but also in everi aspect of my public_life __PUNCT__

that how i try to go about the work of break barrier and expand opportun __PUNCT__

work that i __PUNCT__ myself have benefit from throughout my life __PUNCT__

that is how i practic my faith __PUNCT__

i live by the scriptur that sai we ar all member of god household __PUNCT__

that we ar call __PUNCT__ not ask __PUNCT__ not urg __PUNCT__ not request __PUNCT__ nor order __PUNCT__ but call to love on anoth as jesu ha love us __PUNCT__

now __PUNCT__ i not talk about love that come easi __PUNCT__

i not talk about the greet card kind of love __PUNCT__

i talk about the kind of love that is hard __PUNCT__

the deeper __PUNCT__ more power love in corinthian that bear all thing __PUNCT__ believ all thing __PUNCT__ hope all thing __PUNCT__ endur all thing __PUNCT__

i talk about the kind of love that we have seen in action __PUNCT__

the love that fill the heart of my friend __PUNCT__ congressman john lewi __PUNCT__ a man that lead the march in selma that end with tear_ga __PUNCT__ hose and the crack of the nightstick against hi skull as he knelt down to prai __PUNCT__

as he knelt down the prai __PUNCT__ that nightstick came up and down on a prai man head __PUNCT__

that wa just on of the mani time john wa attack on hi journei for justic __PUNCT__

but those of us know john lewi know that he doesn't harbor hate in ani fiber of hi be __PUNCT__

that the kind of love i talk about __PUNCT__

i talk about the love that fill the heart of presid nelson_mandela __PUNCT__

i had the honor of get to know him over the year and i attend hi inaugur __PUNCT__

i will never forget how he stood up on that stage and said how proud he wa to welcom all of the dignitari in attend __PUNCT__ but there were three peopl he especi want to welcom __PUNCT__

then he ask three of hi jailer from robin island to stand __PUNCT__

after twenti __PUNCT__ seven year in prison at hard labor __PUNCT__ he invit them to share that dai __PUNCT__

he later told me that __PUNCT__ i knew if i didn't leav my bitter and hatr behind __PUNCT__ i still be in prison __PUNCT__

that the kind of love i talk about __PUNCT__

our faith call us to do what is hard __PUNCT__ to give voic to the voiceless __PUNCT__ to lift up the poorest of the poor and the sickest of the sick __PUNCT__

but for the past seven year __PUNCT__ our leader have gotten wrong __PUNCT__

thei gotten it upsid down and backward __PUNCT__

thei have given corpor_tax tax_break to wall_street and then cut head_start __PUNCT__ child_care and drop out prevent __PUNCT__

thei have lift up the drug and insur_compani __PUNCT__ but veto health_care for million of children in need __PUNCT__

thei have given tax_break to the oil_compani but cut off home heat assist for our senior thi winter __PUNCT__

thei have wage a war in iraq that ha taken more than __NUM__ of our son and daughter __PUNCT__

but thei also regret the poverti __PUNCT__ the diseas and violenc that afflict our brother and sister here at home and around the world __PUNCT__

everi dai you perform good_work root in the valu of our faith __PUNCT__

isn't it a shame when we have leader that talk a lot about valu __PUNCT__ but then go and do exactli the opposit in betray of those same valu __PUNCT__

it remind me of what the writer __PUNCT__ eli wiesel __PUNCT__ onc observ __PUNCT__ the opposit of love is not hate __PUNCT__ it is indiffer __PUNCT__

and for the past seven year __PUNCT__ that what we have seen in washington __PUNCT__ an epidem of indiffer __PUNCT__

a collect turn of our govern_back on the least among us __PUNCT__

it is in everi wai possibl the opposit of love __PUNCT__

when our children attend_school that ar separ and unequ in the __NUM___centuri __PUNCT__ when anyon vote on a broken machin and their vote isn't count __PUNCT__ that is the opposit of love __PUNCT__

when we see noos hung in a school yard __PUNCT__ when the scream of selma and montgomeri ar cloud by the nightmar of katrina and rita __PUNCT__ that is the opposit of love __PUNCT__

when some member of god household have everi advantag while other ar shut out of the circl of opportun __PUNCT__ that is the opposit of love __PUNCT__

while we mai have an incom gap and a health gap __PUNCT__ and an achiev_gap __PUNCT__ there is on thing we don't have __PUNCT__ a potenti gap __PUNCT__

it is time we gave everi singl child in thi countri the chanc to live up to hi or her god __PUNCT__ given abil and potenti __PUNCT__

that is what i have strive to do for __NUM___year __PUNCT__

with your help we will continu to make that real __PUNCT__

it is time to reach out and embrac those of the margin and in the shadow __PUNCT__

to usher them back to speech at the tabl in god household __PUNCT__

to ensur that their voic ar onc again heard in thi countri __PUNCT__

too mani of our fellow_citizen feel invis __PUNCT__

thei come to up to me __PUNCT__ as a woman did todai in littl rock __PUNCT__ and said __PUNCT__ senat __PUNCT__ what am i to do __PUNCT__ i can't get the cancer treatment for my chemotherapi anymor __PUNCT__ i can't afford it and thei won't pai for it __PUNCT__

it keep me aliv and now i don't know where to turn __PUNCT__

or the man who stop me the other dai in new york and said __PUNCT__ i about to lose my job __PUNCT__

i got two children to send to colleg __PUNCT__

where will i get the help __PUNCT__ peopl_feel like their deepest concern __PUNCT__ their love of their famili __PUNCT__ can no longer ani matter to those in the highest posit of power __PUNCT__

scriptur tell us we cannot just be __PUNCT__ hearer __PUNCT__ of the word we must be __PUNCT__ doer __PUNCT__

we ar told that faith without work is dead __PUNCT__

i have live long enough by now to know that work without faith is just too hard __PUNCT__

if you cannot dip into that righteou stream and replenish your soul __PUNCT__ it is overwhelm __PUNCT__ isn't it __PUNCT__

as i look at the work yet to be finish __PUNCT__ i believ we ar all call upon to be both hearer and doer __PUNCT__

we ar call to face the inact __PUNCT__ to deliv real_solut to the real_problem that our peopl ar face __PUNCT__

that is the affirm of our love __PUNCT__

i often taught a sundai_school class when i wa in arkansa __PUNCT__ and we talk and talk a lot about love on neighbor as oneself __PUNCT__

i wa struck by how absolut brilliant jesu wa __PUNCT__

we realli can't love someon if we don't love ourselv __PUNCT__ can we __PUNCT__

if we don't believ in and have respect for thi great gift we have been given __PUNCT__ it hard to reach out and love someon __PUNCT__ a neighbor __PUNCT__ a friend __PUNCT__

then of cours to be call upon to love on enemi seem total unrealist in the world we live in __PUNCT__

it hard enough get through the dai __PUNCT__

but it is what we ar call to do __PUNCT__

we have to put that call into action __PUNCT__ not onli in our individu live but throughout our societi __PUNCT__

let us think about the solut we can bring about __PUNCT__ to give our peopl hope __PUNCT__ but more than hope __PUNCT__ result __PUNCT__

the tangibl evid that thei ar no longer invis __PUNCT__ but that their need __PUNCT__ their hurt __PUNCT__ their want __PUNCT__ ar be tend to __PUNCT__

when i sai solut __PUNCT__ i mean expand the earn_incom incom_tax_credit and ty the minimum_wage to the congression wage so that congress cannot get a rais until the american_peopl do __PUNCT__ especi those who do the hardest work __PUNCT__ everi dai __PUNCT__

i mean invest in clean renew_energi and creat creat green collar_job right here in atlanta and across america __PUNCT__

job that cannot be outsourc __PUNCT__ job that we can train our young_peopl to do __PUNCT__ job that will move our depend on foreign_oil and give us a chanc to give our economi __PUNCT__ our environ __PUNCT__ our secur onc again under america control __PUNCT__

i believ we need to make it abundantli_clear that no on that work_full full_time in america should bring_home a wage that keep that person and hi famili below the poverti_line __PUNCT__

anybodi will to work a fulltim job should have accommod of incom and benefit that lift them up __PUNCT__

that how we build a strong middl_class __PUNCT__

when i sai solut i mean tuition tax_credit __PUNCT__ to open the door of higher_educ __PUNCT__ more grant __PUNCT__ more opportun for nation_servic so that student can earn_monei to go to colleg __PUNCT__

when i sai solut __PUNCT__ i mean tax_credit to open the door of higher_educ __PUNCT__

more pell_grant __PUNCT__ more opportun for nation_servic so that student can earn_monei to go to colleg __PUNCT__

i mean doubl the fund for histor black colleg and univers like morehous and spelman and clark atlanta right here __PUNCT__

these have been a bridg to the middl_class for gener of young_peopl __PUNCT__

that bridg ha a sign on it __PUNCT__ you can not enter if you don't have the monei __PUNCT__

that isn't the wai it us to be __PUNCT__

some of us ar old enough to rememb as i am __PUNCT__

i got a loan from the feder_govern when i went to law_school __PUNCT__

it wa about __NUM__ __PUNCT__ interest so when i graduat i want to go work for the children defens fund and work for marian wright edelman __PUNCT__

i didn't want to go to work for a big law_firm __PUNCT__

i want to defend the abus and neglect kid __PUNCT__ the kid in the foster_care care_system __PUNCT__ the kid without health_care and educ __PUNCT__

but if i had been graduat with ten of thousand of dollar worth of debt __PUNCT__ i not sure i could have done that __PUNCT__

we need also to offer to young_peopl who graduat with debt the opportun to do a public_servic servic_job like teach or nurs or law_enforc and let them pai off their loan over time so thei don't becom an indentur_servant to these student_loan compani that hold them in the thrall of predatori interest_rate __PUNCT__

open the door of colleg is not onli good for the young_peopl who walk across that bridg __PUNCT__ it is essenti for the futur of our countri __PUNCT__

when i sai solut i mean health_care for everyon __PUNCT__ no except __PUNCT__ no excus __PUNCT__ everi man __PUNCT__ woman __PUNCT__ and child to have qualiti afford health care becaus that the onli wai we can close the infant_mortal gap __PUNCT__ close the life_expect cap __PUNCT__ ensur that peopl get the primari care from a doctor not from an emerg_room __PUNCT__

when i sai solut i mean fix thi hous_crisi becaus a hous is more than just your greatest sourc of wealth __PUNCT__

it the center of your famili __PUNCT__ it where you make memori and develop relationship __PUNCT__

no on should take that awai from you becaus of the subprim abus practic that so mani mortgag lender engag in without ani supervis or oversight from the feder_govern __PUNCT__

we got to have a moratorium on home_foreclosur for nineti dai so we can help peopl stai in their home __PUNCT__

and let freez those interest_rate for five year so thei don't keep go up and forc more and more peopl into debt __PUNCT__ into foreclosur __PUNCT__

and let put a cap on the interest rate that credit_card_compani can charg and tell them thei got to start explain to peopl in big print __PUNCT__ not littl print __PUNCT__ what the term and condit ar __PUNCT__

no on should forc you into an ocean of debt becaus your health_care_cost ar go up __PUNCT__ your educ and energi_cost ar go up __PUNCT__ but your wage aren't __PUNCT__

the averag_american american_famili ha lost___MONEY__ in incom in the last seven year __PUNCT__

african_american american_famili have lost___MONEY__

contrast that with what happen dure the nineti when the typic famili __PUNCT__ includ african_american american_famili __PUNCT__ saw a rise of __MONEY__ in their incom and more peopl lift out of poverti than in ani time in our countri recent_histori __PUNCT__

we know how to turn thi around but we have to come togeth to seek common_ground wherev possibl and to stand our ground whenev necessari __PUNCT__

and if we truli love our brother and sister __PUNCT__ our son and daughter __PUNCT__ then we will end thi war in iraq that ha claim so mani of their live and injur ten of thousand of them __PUNCT__

and we will care for them when thei came home __PUNCT__ becaus i believ if you serv our countri __PUNCT__ our countri should serv you __PUNCT__

and you should get the health_care __PUNCT__ the compens __PUNCT__ the job that you deserv __PUNCT__

everi dai in america hundr of thousand of our veteran ar homeless __PUNCT__ ar jobless __PUNCT__ ar be turn awai from treatment and health care becaus there no space for them __PUNCT__

i think we got to do everyth we can to make it clear that we will tend to our veteran start with our youngest veteran with a __NUM___centuri g.i __PUNCT__

bill of right for monei for colleg __PUNCT__ and home_ownership __PUNCT__ and a busi __PUNCT__ all the wai back to our oldest veteran __PUNCT__

let pai particular attent to the vietnam_veteran who fought and serv dure that conflict who did not get the help and the servic that thei had earn __PUNCT__

and we will restor our moral leadership in the world to ensur that we never fight a war like thi again __PUNCT__

will all of thi be easi __PUNCT__ of cours not __PUNCT__

will we get it done all at onc __PUNCT__ no __PUNCT__ but we will make our greatest effort __PUNCT__ just as all of you have done __PUNCT__

that is at the heart of what bring you togeth __PUNCT__ your work everi dai on the front_line of our commun address some of our most difficult challeng __PUNCT__ poverti and hunger __PUNCT__ hiv/aid and diseas __PUNCT__ disast relief and so much more __PUNCT__

it is a role that your church have plai throughout our nation_histori __PUNCT__

our church have serv as a bedrock of our commun __PUNCT__ a refug in time of need __PUNCT__ the heart of our great movement for justic __PUNCT__

you cannot have the right kind of chang without justic __PUNCT__

chang happen whether we want it or not __PUNCT__ that is a part of life __PUNCT__

what we must be commit to is chang with justic __PUNCT__ chang that make a differ in the live of everi singl american __PUNCT__

we know that we have a lot of work to do but i come befor you with the hope that thi great_nation that we love __PUNCT__ that ha given all of us so much __PUNCT__ whose struggl __PUNCT__ trial and tribul over the centuri have both broken heart and inspir us __PUNCT__ that we will onc again begin act like american __PUNCT__

there isn't anyth our nation can't do to heal up the wound that have been inflict __PUNCT__ make it possibl for each and everi person to again feel he or she count __PUNCT__

we can do thi __PUNCT__

we can lift up the spirit of those most in need __PUNCT__

and our countri deserv a presid who roll up hi or her sleev and join you as a partner in that work __PUNCT__

that is what i wish to do __PUNCT__ to work with you to spur not just each other but all american toward love and good_deed and to renew the promis of thi great_nation __PUNCT__

thank you and god_bless_america __PUNCT__