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It is not enough to give health care to the sick, or jobs to the jobless, or education to our children. Because if you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of co-existence and cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars. But that is not yet the case.
Her father worked on oil rigs and farms through most of the Depression. Not just with words, but with deeds - by investing in our schools and our communities; by enforcing our civil rights laws and ensuring fairness in our criminal justice system; by providing this generation with ladders of opportunity that were unavailable for previous generations. With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States.
They are anxious about their futures, and feel their dreams slipping away; in an era of stagnant wages and global competition, opportunity comes to be seen as a zero sum game, in which your dreams come at my expense. Ironically, this quintessentially American - and yes, conservative - notion of self-help found frequent expression in Reverend Wright's sermons. King's birthday at his home church, Ebenezer Baptist, in Atlanta. Progress in the daily lives of the Palestinian people must be part of a road to peace, and Israel must take concrete steps to enable such progress.
And in all these ways, they helped make this country more decent and more just. And they are a part of America, this country that I love. Our government should work for us, not against us.
God bless you.