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We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality. What we have already achieved gives us hope - the audacity to hope - for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.
They are both passed away now. The Republican nominee, John McCain, has worn the uniform of our country with bravery and distinction, and for that we owe him our gratitude and respect. The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of co-existence and cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars. It is time for these settlements to stop.
It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. There need not be contradiction between development and tradition.
The hope of a millworker's son who dares to defy the odds. In a sense, what brought me to Chicago in the first place was a hunger for some sort of meaning in my life. But it also comes from my own American story.
They stood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, as the blows of billy clubs rained down. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton's Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas. Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course.
Thank you. And may God's peace be upon you.