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"And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back." And so in that spirit, let me speak as clearly and plainly as I can about some specific issues that I believe we must finally confront together. But let us be clear: al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 people on that day. Likewise, it is important for Western countries to avoid impeding Muslim citizens from practicing religion as they see fit - for instance, by dictating what clothes a Muslim woman should wear.
Through hard work and perseverance my father got a scholarship to study in a magical place, America, that shone as a beacon of freedom and opportunity to so many who had come before. Like other predominantly black churches across the country, Trinity embodies the black community in its entirety - the doctor and the welfare mom, the model student and the former gang-banger. For part of what has been lost these past eight years can't just be measured by lost wages or bigger trade deficits.
That is the true genius of America - a faith in simple dreams,, an insistence on small miracles. If there is a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. The hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too. I can assure you it is not. King's birthday at his home church, Ebenezer Baptist, in Atlanta. That is why I ordered the removal of our combat brigades by next August.
The President vetoed a similar plan, but he doesn't have the last word, and we're going to keep at it, until we bring this war to an end. They claim that our insistence on something larger, something firmer and more honest in our public life is just a Trojan Horse for higher taxes and the abandonment of traditional values. The Holy Koran tells us, "O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another."
In a sense, what brought me to Chicago in the first place was a hunger for some sort of meaning in my life. Change comes to Washington. America, this is one of those moments. I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States, and I have ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed by early next year. And we will match promising Muslim students with internships in America; invest in on-line learning for teachers and children around the world; and create a new online network, so a teenager in Kansas can communicate instantly with a teenager in Cairo.
Thank you very much everybody.