In his weekly address, President Obama said lack of opportunity and unfairness is what has hindered the poorest of communities from reaching the American dream. He called for programs that not only create opportunity but that also build trust between police and communities who feel targeted by them.

Obama said his administration's one and only goal for the last six years has been "creating opportunity for all." But it's the people in the inner cities and elsewhere -- those groups that feel "unfairly targeted by police" -- who need the most help to find work and achieve their dreams.

OBAMA: What we’ve long understood, though, is that some communities have consistently had the odds stacked against them. That sense of unfairness and powerlessness has helped to fuel the kind of unrest that we’ve seen in places like Baltimore, Ferguson, and New York. It has many causes -- from a basic lack of opportunity to groups feeling unfairly targeted by police – which means there’s no single solution. But there are many that could make a different and could help. And we have to do everything in our power to make this country’s promise real for everyone willing to work for it.

With a nod to his recent "poverty summit" at Georgetown University, the president said he wants to continue in the spirit of that conversation with "folks from all faiths, and across the ideological spectrum" to come together and care for "the least of these." "Because it's not words, but deeds, that make a difference," Obama said.

And he was sure to list his deeds, so far: "[E]xpanding tax cuts for working parents, to raising high school graduation rates, to helping millions of Americans secure health insurance when they didn’t have it just a few years ago -- our actions are making a difference."

Monday, the president is slated to be in one of America's most violent cities, Camden, New Jersey, to speak with law enforcement and encourage them to remove one of those barriers keeping young people from a prosperous future: their treatment by police.

It's that promise, and the promise of opportunity for all, that Obama will "never stop fighting for" -- not only for his children, he said, but also "for yours."

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