Foreign propagandists have a strange
misconception of our national character. They believe that we Americans
must be hybrid, mongrel, undynamic; and we are called so by the enemies of
democracy because, they say, so many races have been fused together in our
national life. They believe we are disunited and defenseless because we argue
with each other, because we engage in political campaigns, because we recognize
the sacred right of the minority to disagree with the majority and to express
that disagreement even loudly. It is the very mingling of races, dedicated to
common ideals, which creates and recreates our vitality. In every representative
American meeting there will be people with names like Jackson and Lincoln and
Isaacs and Schultz and Kovack and Sartori and Jones and Smith. These Americans
with varied. backgrounds are all immigrants or the descendants of immigrants.
All of them are inheritors of the same stalwart tradition of unusual enterprise,
of adventurousness, of courage--courage to "pull up stakes and git moving". That
has been the great compelling force in our history. Our continent, our
hemisphere, has been populated by people who wanted a life better than the life
they had previously known. They were willing to undergo all conceivable
hardships to achieve the better life. They were animated, just as we are
animated today, by this compelling force. It is what makes us
Americans.
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