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Our conscience can't rest so long as 37 million Americans are poor and forgotten by their leaders in Washington and by the media elites. We need to heed the biblical call to care for "the least of these" and lift the poor out of despair.
The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. But if we choose to be bound by the past, we will never move forward.
And he knows that it's not enough for just some of us to prosper. Yet what we also understand is that our values should express themselves not just through our churches or synagogues, temples or mosques; they should express themselves through our government. But the failure to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush. For human history has often been a record of nations and tribes subjugating one another to serve their own interests. So let me be clear: no system of government can or should be imposed upon one nation by any other. The same is true for the astonishing progress within Muslim-majority countries from Kuala Lumpur to Dubai.
Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. 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. There is no straight line to realize this promise.
In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President John Adams wrote, "The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims." And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically-elected Iranian government. This history is well known. Likewise, it is important for Western countries to avoid impeding Muslim citizens from practicing religion as they see fit - for instance, by dictating what clothes a Muslim woman should wear.
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