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Go into any inner city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach our kids to learn - they know that parents have to teach, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white. My mother, whose parents were non-practicing Baptists and Methodists, was one of the most spiritual souls I ever knew. I'd been inspired by the civil rights movement - by all the clear-eyed, straight-backed, courageous young people who'd boarded buses and traveled down South to march and sit at lunch counters, and lay down their lives in some cases for freedom. But there's a story I want to share that takes place before Moses passed the mantle of leadership on to Joshua. Throughout the first year of this campaign, against all predictions to the contrary, we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity. Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.
This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't. Although I believe that the Iraqi people are ultimately better off without the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, I also believe that events in Iraq have reminded America of the need to use diplomacy and build international consensus to resolve our problems whenever possible. That is why I am committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat.
And then another one. The fear and anger that it provoked was understandable, but in some cases, it led us to act contrary to our ideals.
He said that the fundamentals of the economy are strong. It's a belief that pulsed in the cradle of civilization, and that still beats in the heart of billions.
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. I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slaveowners - an inheritance we pass on to our two precious daughters. I have already condemned, in unequivocal terms, the statements of Reverend Wright that have caused such controversy. The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love and yes, the bitterness and bias that make up the black experience in America. It was a peaceful and determined insistence upon the ideals at the center of America's founding. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive, but it is being challenged in many different ways.
God bless you.