On the recordOctober 2, 2001
We are a group of people who are not one race, but we are every race on the planet because we have people who have come here from every ethnic and racial group. We do not represent just one nationality, because we have people who have come here from Europe, from Asia, from Africa, from Spanish-speaking countries and from French-speaking countries. We have Muslims and we have Buddhists and we have Christians and we have Catholics, and we have about every religion there is, but what ties us together as a people is a love of liberty and justice that was first discovered back about 225 years ago when our Founding Fathers saw that this was something that bound them together as a Nation, and that would be the unifying factor and established this government that we have.
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