Remember the boy who was picked up by the ambulance in Syria?

Can you please go get him and bring him to our home?

Park in the driveway

or on the street and we'll be waiting

for you guys with flags, flowers, and balloons.

We will give him a family and he will be our brother.

Catherine, my little sister, will be collecting

butterflies and fireflies for him.

In my school, I have a friend from Syria, Omar.

And I will introduce him to Omar and

we can all play together.

We can invite him to birthday parties

and he will teach us another language.

Since he won't bring toys and doesn't have toys,

Catherine will share her big blue stripy white bunny.

And I will share my bike and I will teach him how to ride it.

I will teach him --

Addition and subtraction.

Those are the words of a six-year-old boy.

He teaches us a lot.

(applause)

The humanity that a young child can display, who

hasn't learned to be cynical or suspicious or fearful of other people

because of where they're from

or how they look or how they pray.

We can all learn from Alex.

Alex.

Six years old.