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But it also comes from my own American story. Michelle and I are only here tonight because we were given a chance at an education. So let us agree that patriotism has no party. No single speech can eradicate years of mistrust, nor can I answer in the time that I have all the complex questions that brought us to this point. 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.
We need a President who can face the threats of the future, not keep grasping at the ideas of the past. They could've heard words of anger and discord.
But we also know that government initiatives are not enough. "People began to shout, to rise from their seats and clap and cry out, a forceful wind carrying the reverend's voice up into the rafters....And in that single note - hope! - I heard something else; at the foot of that cross, inside the thousands of churches across the city, I imagined the stories of ordinary black people merging with the stories of David and Goliath, Moses and Pharaoh, the Christians in the lion's den, Ezekiel's field of dry bones. America does not presume to know what is best for everyone, just as we would not presume to pick the outcome of a peaceful election. Indeed, faith should bring us together.
We coach Little League in the Blue States and yes, we've got some gay friends in the Red States. Let us be our brother's keeper, Scripture tells us.
That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe. And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality. That is what it means to share this world in the 21st century.
Thank you.