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While studying here, my father met my mother. "If you're organizing churches," they said, "it might be helpful if you went to church once in a while." And I thought, "Well, I guess that makes sense." A nation of whiners? Tell that to the proud auto workers at a Michigan plant who, after they found out it was closing, kept showing up every day and working as hard as ever, because they knew there were people who counted on the brakes that they made. More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations. So let there be no doubt: Islam is a part of America. troops and civilians.
John Edwards calls on us to hope. We have to do what we can, knowing it's hard and not swinging from a naive idealism to a bitter defeatism - but rather, accepting the fact that we're not going to solve every problem overnight, but we can still make a difference. And yet, it has only been in the last couple of weeks that the discussion of race in this campaign has taken a particularly divisive turn. I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America's story.
For alongside our famous individualism, there's another ingredient in the American saga. They cheered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial when Dr. This was one of the tasks we set forth at the beginning of this campaign - to continue the long march of those who came before us, a march for a more just, more equal, more free, more caring and more prosperous America. If John McCain wants to follow George Bush with more tough talk and bad strategy, that is his choice - but it is not the change we need. You understand that in this election, the greatest risk we can take is to try the same old politics with the same old players and expect a different result. As the Holy Koran tells us, "Be conscious of God and speak always the truth." That is what I will try to do - to speak the truth as best I can, humbled by the task before us, and firm in my belief that the interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.
More to do for the young woman in East St. If there is a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. I'm talking about something more substantial. Theirs are the stories that shaped me. It's a story with a simple truth: that violence is a dead end.
That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe. Now don't get me wrong. I thought of the families I've met who were struggling to get by without a loved one's full income, or whose loved ones had returned with a limb missing or nerves shattered, but who still lacked long-term health benefits because they were Reservists.
Thank you.