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The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of co-existence and cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars. Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people. That does not lessen my commitment, however, to governments that reflect the will of the people.
In the following century, men and women of faith waded into the battles over prison reform and temperance, public education and women's rights - and above all, abolition. This time we want to talk about the shuttered mills that once provided a decent life for men and women of every race, and the homes for sale that once belonged to Americans from every religion, every region, every walk of life.
They're ready to turn the page on the old politics and the old policies - whether it's the war in Iraq or the health care crisis we're in, or a school system that's leaving too many kids behind despite the slogans. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787. She's the one who taught me about hard work. Just as Muslims do not fit a crude stereotype, America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. In Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia, we have seen Muslim-majority countries elect a woman to lead.
And I heard Reverend Jeremiah A. But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we'll be talking about some other distraction. For eighteen long months, you have stood up, one by one, and said enough to the politics of the past. The Palestinian Authority must develop its capacity to govern, with institutions that serve the needs of its people.
My father was a foreign student, born and raised in a small village in Kenya. 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. In the face of that young student who sleeps just three hours before working the night shift, I think about my mom, who raised my sister and me on her own while she worked and earned her degree; who once turned to food stamps but was still able to send us to the best schools in the country with the help of student loans and scholarships. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. I am aware that some question or justify the events of 9/11. America respects the right of all peaceful and law-abiding voices to be heard around the world, even if we disagree with them.
Thank you.