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These people are a part of me. America, our work will not be easy. Part of this conviction is rooted in my own experience. In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President John Adams wrote, "The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims." And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. America will align our policies with those who pursue peace, and say in public what we say in private to Israelis and Palestinians and Arabs. 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."
King delivered his prayer for our country. Of course, the answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution - a Constitution that had at is very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time. As a boy, I spent several years in Indonesia and heard the call of the azaan at the break of dawn and the fall of dusk.
A belief that there are better days ahead. I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. The challenges we face require tough choices, and Democrats as well as Republicans will need to cast off the worn-out ideas and politics of the past. I am grateful for your hospitality, and the hospitality of the people of Egypt.
The hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too. And God is still speaking. Tell that to the military families who shoulder their burdens silently as they watch their loved ones leave for their third or fourth or fifth tour of duty. So don't tell me that Democrats won't defend this country. Denying that fact is baseless, ignorant, and hateful.
Because the Iraq war is not just a security problem, it's a moral problem. But we cannot walk away this time. "We cannot walk alone," the preacher cried. When one nation pursues a nuclear weapon, the risk of nuclear attack rises for all nations. It is about preventing a nuclear arms race in the Middle East that could lead this region and the world down a hugely dangerous path. The issues that I have described will not be easy to address.
God bless you.