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Hope in the face of difficulty. It's been several months now since I announced I was running for president. I learned that my sins could be redeemed. It's a journey that takes us back to our nation's founding, when none other than a UCC church inspired the Boston Tea Party and helped bring an Empire to its knees.
It was stained by this nation's original sin of slavery, a question that divided the colonies and brought the convention to a stalemate until the founders chose to allow the slave trade to continue for at least twenty more years, and to leave any final resolution to future generations. What we have already achieved gives us hope - the audacity to hope - for what we can and must achieve tomorrow. We meet at a time of tension between the United States and Muslims around the world - tension rooted in historical forces that go beyond any current policy debate. These are not opinions to be debated; these are facts to be dealt with. We also know that military power alone is not going to solve the problems in Afghanistan and Pakistan. And any nation - including Iran - should have the right to access peaceful nuclear power if it complies with its responsibilities under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
More to do for the father that I met who was losing his job and choking back the tears, wondering how he would pay $4,500 a month for the drugs his son needs without the health benefits that he counted on. And slowly, I came to realize that something was missing as well - that without an anchor for my beliefs, without a commitment to a particular community of faith, at some level I would always remain apart, and alone. In South Carolina, where the Confederate Flag still flies, we built a powerful coalition of African Americans and white Americans. On economic development, we will create a new corps of business volunteers to partner with counterparts in Muslim-majority countries.
They must be pursued - and they must be defeated. And I'm glad to see that. I'll make it easier for the American people to afford these new cars. Because it feeds into the cynicism we all have about government. They could've heard words of anger and discord. I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions.
I've been speaking to a lot of churches recently, so it's nice to be speaking to one that's so familiar. And there's another issue we must confront as well. Consensus and compromise will not come easy. 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. More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations. On science and technology, we will launch a new fund to support technological development in Muslim-majority countries, and to help transfer ideas to the marketplace so they can create jobs.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.