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Anyway, Ashley finishes her story and then goes around the room and asks everyone else why they're supporting the campaign. And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers - Thomas Jefferson - kept in his personal library.
She had been working to organize a mostly African-American community since the beginning of this campaign, and one day she was at a roundtable discussion where everyone went around telling their story and why they were there. "I'm here because of Ashley." By itself, that single moment of recognition between that young white girl and that old black man is not enough. I'll invest in early childhood education. But my personal story is not so unique. For many years, Iran has defined itself in part by its opposition to my country, and there is indeed a tumultuous history between us. That is why the United States will partner with any Muslim-majority country to support expanded literacy for girls, and to help young women pursue employment through micro-financing that helps people live their dreams.
I've been speaking to a lot of churches recently, so it's nice to be speaking to one that's so familiar. They saw that I knew the Scriptures and that many of the values I held and that propelled me in my work were values they shared.
Let us find that common stake we all have in one another, and let our politics reflect that spirit as well. There is one story in particularly that I'd like to leave you with today - a story I told when I had the great honor of speaking on Dr.
That's not what I'm talking about. Instead, they expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country - a view that sees white racism as endemic, and that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America; a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words. Now Ashley might have made a different choice. What has also been lost is our sense of common purpose - our sense of higher purpose. The Talmud tells us: "The whole of the Torah is for the purpose of promoting peace."
God bless you.