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We are a better country than this. "We cannot walk alone," the preacher cried. Now is the time for Palestinians to focus on what they can build.
She had this enormous capacity for wonder, and lived by the Golden Rule. This is a difficult responsibility to embrace. And finally, just as America can never tolerate violence by extremists, we must never alter our principles.
Hope in the face of uncertainty. God is still speaking. In my first book, Dreams From My Father, I described the experience of my first service at Trinity: I've seen it in Washington, when we worked across party lines to open up government and hold lobbyists more accountable, to give better care for our veterans and keep nuclear weapons out of terrorist hands. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for.
And this restlessness - this search for meaning - is familiar to me. That's what compromise is about. And yet, to wish away the resentments of white Americans, to label them as misguided or even racist, without recognizing they are grounded in legitimate concerns - this too widens the racial divide, and blocks the path to understanding. That's not the judgment we need. 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. And yet Al Qaeda chose to ruthlessly murder these people, claimed credit for the attack, and even now states their determination to kill on a massive scale.
It's not enough, but it's helping. In the end, then, what is called for is nothing more, and nothing less, than what all the world's great religions demand - that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us. There is one story in particularly that I'd like to leave you with today - a story I told when I had the great honor of speaking on Dr. Many bring up a specific issue. That's the promise we need to keep. Some suggest that it isn't worth the effort - that we are fated to disagree, and civilizations are doomed to clash.
Thank you.