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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. Yet what we also understand is that our values should express themselves not just through our churches or synagogues, temples or mosques; they should express themselves through our government. Universities and states, including Illinois, are taking part in a divestment campaign to pressure the Sudanese government to stop the killings. Michelle and I are only here tonight because we were given a chance at an education. Trade can bring new wealth and opportunities, but also huge disruptions and changing communities. In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.
And right here in the UCC, we're hearing from God about what it means to be a welcoming church that holds on to our Christian witness. It's a story that hasn't made me the most conventional candidate. And I will restore our moral standing, so that America is once again that last, best hope for all who are called to the cause of freedom, who long for lives of peace, and who yearn for a better future. I know there are those who dismiss such beliefs as happy talk. The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of co-existence and cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars. That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't.
He was nominally a Muslim since there were a number of Muslims in the village where he was born. They work hard and give back and keep going without complaint. It's a promise that says each of us has the freedom to make of our own lives what we will, but that we also have the obligation to treat each other with dignity and respect. Now is the time to finally meet our moral obligation to provide every child a world-class education, because it will take nothing less to compete in the global economy. But I stand before you tonight because all across America something is stirring.
John Kerry believes in the Constitutional freedoms that have made our country the envy of the world, and he will never sacrifice our basic liberties, nor use faith as a wedge to divide us. But she had a healthy skepticism of religion as an institution. At every opportunity, they've told evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their Church, while suggesting to the rest of the country that religious Americans care only about issues like abortion and gay marriage; school prayer and intelligent design. We were born out of revolution against an empire.
And he knows that it's not enough for just some of us to prosper. It was stained by this nation's original sin of slavery, a question that divided the colonies and brought the convention to a stalemate until the founders chose to allow the slave trade to continue for at least twenty more years, and to leave any final resolution to future generations. That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't. It is costly and politically difficult to continue this conflict. Some are eager to stoke the flames of division, and to stand in the way of progress.
God bless you.