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But then I asked myself: Are we serving Shamus as well as he is serving us? But I'm hopeful because I think there's an awakening taking place in America. Now, some of you may have heard me talk about the Joshua generation. Out of work? Tough luck. Indeed, it suggests the opposite: we must face these tensions squarely. 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.
John Kerry believes in an America where all Americans can afford the same health coverage our politicians in Washington have for themselves. This is a problem that's brought together churches and synagogues and mosques and people of all faiths as part of a grassroots movement. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton's Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas. But I do have an unyielding belief that all people yearn for certain things: the ability to speak your mind and have a say in how you are governed; confidence in the rule of law and the equal administration of justice; government that is transparent and doesn't steal from the people; the freedom to live as you choose. On economic development, we will create a new corps of business volunteers to partner with counterparts in Muslim-majority countries.
My mother, whose parents were non-practicing Baptists and Methodists, was one of the most spiritual souls I ever knew. And when one of his chief advisors - the man who wrote his economic plan - was talking about the anxiety Americans are feeling, he said that we were just suffering from a "mental recession," and that we've become, and I quote, "a nation of whiners." Tomorrow, I will visit Buchenwald, which was part of a network of camps where Jews were enslaved, tortured, shot and gassed to death by the Third Reich. But it should be their choice.
He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack. We will all have to make concessions to achieve this. But it is where we start. Now, I don't believe that Senator McCain doesn't care what's going on in the lives of Americans. We will open centers of scientific excellence in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and appoint new Science Envoys to collaborate on programs that develop new sources of energy, create green jobs, digitize records, clean water, and grow new crops.
And it offends our conscience. Not once in my conversations with him have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms, or treat whites with whom he interacted with anything but courtesy and respect. They came of age in the late fifties and early sixties, a time when segregation was still the law of the land and opportunity was systematically constricted. So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed. In Ankara, I made clear that America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam.
Thank you.