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Let each one of us say, 'I am an American. I intend to stay an American. I will do my best to wipe from my heart hate, rancor and political prejudice. I will sustain my government. And, through good days or bad, I will try to serve my country.'

It's very important to me that people see I am an American and I was born in the States.

I was born as a soldier and will die as one.

I was born in the U.S. This is my country.

I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.

I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity.

It's hard to think of myself as an American, and yet I am not from India, a place where I was not born and where I have never lived.

To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.