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They know they have to work hard to get ahead - and they want to. John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded; so instead of offering tax breaks to companies shipping jobs overseas, he offers them to companies creating jobs here at home. And when these battles were overtaken by others and when the wars they opposed were waged and won, these faithful foot soldiers for justice kept marching. As a boy, I spent several years in Indonesia and heard the call of the azaan at the break of dawn and the fall of dusk. And that is why we are providing more than $2.8 billion to help Afghans develop their economy and deliver services that people depend upon.
It is on your lips and in your heart. I've gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world's poorest nations. He said that our economy has made "great progress" under this President. Denying that fact is baseless, ignorant, and hateful. I saw it firsthand as a child in Indonesia, where devout Christians worshiped freely in an overwhelmingly Muslim country.
The press has scoured every exit poll for the latest evidence of racial polarization, not just in terms of white and black, but black and brown as well. In fact, a similar anger exists within segments of the white community. Now Ashley might have made a different choice. When violent extremists operate in one stretch of mountains, people are endangered across an ocean. Indeed, none of us should tolerate these extremists. That is not how moral authority is claimed; that is how it is surrendered.
That legacy of defeat was passed on to future generations - those young men and increasingly young women who we see standing on street corners or languishing in our prisons, without hope or prospects for the future. And as so many generations have come to realize over the course of the two-hundred and twenty one years since a band of patriots signed that document in Philadelphia, that is where the perfection begins. This country is more generous than one where a man in Indiana has to pack up the equipment he's worked on for twenty years and watch it shipped off to China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt like a failure when he went home to tell his family the news. And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman. But I will also renew the tough, direct diplomacy that can prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and curb Russian aggression. Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.
It's the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs. And this restlessness - this search for meaning - is familiar to me. We want to talk about how to bring them home from a war that never should've been authorized and never should've been waged, and we want to talk about how we'll show our patriotism by caring for them, and their families, and giving them the benefits they have earned. Fear that because of modernity we will lose of control over our economic choices, our politics, and most importantly our identities - those things we most cherish about our communities, our families, our traditions, and our faith.
Thank you. And may God's peace be upon you.