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Because the Iraq war is not just a security problem, it's a moral problem. No, the word is very near. She had been working to organize a mostly African-American community since the beginning of this campaign, and one day she was at a roundtable discussion where everyone went around telling their story and why they were there. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal, and we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words - within our borders, and around the world. Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.
Back home, my grandmother raised their baby and went to work on a bomber assembly line. The people I meet - in small towns and big cities, in diners and office parks - they don't expect government to solve all their problems. And so they need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them - that they are not just destined to travel down that long road toward nothingness. I don't fit the typical pedigree, and I haven't spent my career in the halls of Washington. We cannot impose peace.
Clearly, the past 50 years have not weakened your resolve as faithful witnesses of the gospel. They stood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, as the blows of billy clubs rained down. 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 when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman. As a young man, I worked in Chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in their Muslim faith. Palestinians must abandon violence. That does not lessen my commitment, however, to governments that reflect the will of the people. Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
A belief in things not seen. Throughout the first year of this campaign, against all predictions to the contrary, we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity. On one end of the spectrum, we've heard the implication that my candidacy is somehow an exercise in affirmative action; that it's based solely on the desire of wide-eyed liberals to purchase racial reconciliation on the cheap. We want to talk about how to bring them home from a war that never should've been authorized and never should've been waged, and we want to talk about how we'll show our patriotism by caring for them, and their families, and giving them the benefits they have earned. 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. I know that for many, the face of globalization is contradictory.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.