People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant. . . it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.
If you live in the [Middle East] area, you see [U. S actions] as part of a continuing drive for dominance, and with it a kind of obduracy, a stubborn opposition to the wishes and desires and aspirations of the people there.