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I stand here today, grateful for the diversity of my heritage, aware that my parents' dreams live on in my two precious daughters. I understand you switched venues at considerable expense and inconvenience because of unfair labor practices at the place you were going to be having this synod. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old - is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past. Tonight, I say to the American people, to Democrats and Republicans and Independents across this great land - enough! This moment - this election - is our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise alive. It's time for us to change America. Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one's religion.
He told me he'd joined the Marines, and was heading to Iraq the following week. And it's around this time that some pastors I was working with came up to me and asked if I was a member of a church. And as so many generations have come to realize over the course of the two-hundred and twenty one years since a band of patriots signed that document in Philadelphia, that is where the perfection begins. These challenges are not all of government's making. Indeed, faith should bring us together. On education, we will expand exchange programs, and increase scholarships, like the one that brought my father to America, while encouraging more Americans to study in Muslim communities.
I thought of the 900 men and women - sons and daughters, husbands and wives, friends and neighbors, who won't be returning to their own hometowns. And so they need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them - that they are not just destined to travel down that long road toward nothingness. But what I will not do is suggest that the Senator takes his positions for political purposes. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for.
It's that folks are hungry for change - they're hungry for something new. But at the end of the day, we cannot walk away - not for the sake of passing a bill, but so that we can finally address the real concerns of Americans and the persistent hopes of all those brothers and sisters who want nothing more than their own chance at our common dream. This time we want to talk about the fact that the real problem is not that someone who doesn't look like you might take your job; it's that the corporation you work for will ship it overseas for nothing more than a profit. The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of co-existence and cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars. These needs will be met only if we act boldly in the years ahead; and if we understand that the challenges we face are shared, and our failure to meet them will hurt us all.
Our trials and triumphs became at once unique and universal, black and more than black; in chronicling our journey, the stories and songs gave us a means to reclaim memories that we didn't need to feel shame about...memories that all people might study and cherish - and with which we could start to rebuild." In Washington, they call this the Ownership Society, but what it really means is - you're on your own. The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco. We will open centers of scientific excellence in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and appoint new Science Envoys to collaborate on programs that develop new sources of energy, create green jobs, digitize records, clean water, and grow new crops. We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning, keeping in mind what has been written.
Thank you very much everybody.