The most presidential lorem ipsum in history.
He told me he'd joined the Marines, and was heading to Iraq the following week. And that's what we have to restore. Change happens because the American people demand it - because they rise up and insist on new ideas and new leadership, a new politics for a new time.
Bill, bought a house through F.H.A., and later moved west all the way to Hawaii in search of opportunity. For the men and women of Reverend Wright's generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years. All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time.
And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American. Around the world, the Jewish people were persecuted for centuries, and anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust.
They want a sense of purpose, a narrative arc to their lives. But kneeling beneath that cross on the South Side, I felt I heard God's spirit beckoning me. It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed. That is the responsibility we have to one another as human beings. I understand those who protest that some countries have weapons that others do not.
In the face of that young student who sleeps just three hours before working the night shift, I think about my mom, who raised my sister and me on her own while she worked and earned her degree; who once turned to food stamps but was still able to send us to the best schools in the country with the help of student loans and scholarships. Six million Jews were killed - more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today. Palestinians must abandon violence. No single nation should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons.
Thank you very much everybody.