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"If you're organizing churches," they said, "it might be helpful if you went to church once in a while." And I thought, "Well, I guess that makes sense." And the lack of basic services in so many urban black neighborhoods - parks for kids to play in, police walking the beat, regular garbage pick-up and building code enforcement - all helped create a cycle of violence, blight and neglect that continue to haunt us. Now Ashley might have made a different choice. So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed. That is why we are forging service projects in America that bring together Christians, Muslims, and Jews.
I just think he doesn't know. Theirs are the stories that shaped me. That is why I intend to personally pursue this outcome with all the patience that the task requires. Now let me be clear: issues of women's equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam.
For the men and women of Reverend Wright's generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years. But they have helped shape the political landscape for at least a generation. And Ashley said that when she was nine years old, her mother got cancer. These are not whiners. Change happens because the American people demand it - because they rise up and insist on new ideas and new leadership, a new politics for a new time. And while America in the past has focused on oil and gas in this part of the world, we now seek a broader engagement.
And when these battles were overtaken by others and when the wars they opposed were waged and won, these faithful foot soldiers for justice kept marching. You're on your own. That promise is our greatest inheritance. That's why we're partnering with a coalition of forty-six countries.
No, the word is very near. I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.