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That's the change we need right now. And in exchange, I'll ask for higher standards and more accountability. It's been about you. 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. Without these ingredients, elections alone do not make true democracy. People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, heart, and soul.
It is not up in heaven. So let us agree that patriotism has no party. Now let me be clear: issues of women's equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam.
And until we stop the genocide that's being carried out in Darfur as I speak, our conscience cannot rest. Consensus and compromise will not come easy. But she didn't. Make no mistake: we do not want to keep our troops in Afghanistan.
The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished. Why associate myself with Reverend Wright in the first place, they may ask? Why not join another church? And I confess that if all that I knew of Reverend Wright were the snippets of those sermons that have run in an endless loop on the television and You Tube, or if Trinity United Church of Christ conformed to the caricatures being peddled by some commentators, there is no doubt that I would react in much the same way 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. For more than sixty years they have endured the pain of dislocation. So let there be no doubt: the situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable.
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