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This time we want to talk about the fact that the real problem is not that someone who doesn't look like you might take your job; it's that the corporation you work for will ship it overseas for nothing more than a profit. And finally they come to this elderly black man who's been sitting there quietly the entire time. This is not simply about America's interests.
Hall in East Moline, Ill.. This is where we are right now. It's a promise that says each of us has the freedom to make of our own lives what we will, but that we also have the obligation to treat each other with dignity and respect. I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95% of all working families. Yes, we must provide more ladders to success for young men who fall into lives of crime and despair. Violent extremists have exploited these tensions in a small but potent minority of Muslims.
It was stained by this nation's original sin of slavery, a question that divided the colonies and brought the convention to a stalemate until the founders chose to allow the slave trade to continue for at least twenty more years, and to leave any final resolution to future generations. Just as Muslims do not fit a crude stereotype, America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. This is a difficult responsibility to embrace. But I do have an unyielding belief that all people yearn for certain things: the ability to speak your mind and have a say in how you are governed; confidence in the rule of law and the equal administration of justice; government that is transparent and doesn't steal from the people; the freedom to live as you choose. In Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia, we have seen Muslim-majority countries elect a woman to lead.
A lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one's family, contributed to the erosion of black families - a problem that welfare policies for many years may have worsened. But we have a responsibility to join together on behalf of the world we seek - a world where extremists no longer threaten our people, and American troops have come home; a world where Israelis and Palestinians are each secure in a state of their own, and nuclear energy is used for peaceful purposes; a world where governments serve their citizens, and the rights of all God's children are respected.
The hope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta. That anger may not get expressed in public, in front of white co-workers or white friends. And when one of his chief advisors - the man who wrote his economic plan - was talking about the anxiety Americans are feeling, he said that we were just suffering from a "mental recession," and that we've become, and I quote, "a nation of whiners." It's time for us to change America. That promise is our greatest inheritance. Americans are ready to join with citizens and governments; community organizations, religious leaders, and businesses in Muslim communities around the world to help our people pursue a better life.
Thank you very much everybody.