If you will remember the biblical story about the tower of Babel, the story is that the villagers decided to build a tower to heaven. And the Lord did not want that done and, as a preemptive measure, gave them all different languages. And then they could not work together, and they broke up and they started all the other nations. I am not saying that we cannot work with each other when we speak different languages, but the fact is, it is interesting that thousands and thousands of years ago, in a Bible story we all learned as children, the way to break up a nation was to have different languages. I believe, to say it in a positive light, the way to unify America further is having one common language. Today there are 320 languages spoken in the United States of America.
Jack Kingston: “If you will remember the biblical story about the tower of Babel, the story is that the villagers decided to build a…”
On the recordJuly 31, 1996
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Discussing the importance of a common language for national unity.
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