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Woodrow Wilson: It is not fair to the great multitudes of hopeful men and women who press into this country from other countries that we…

On the recordJuly 12, 1916
It is not fair to the great multitudes of hopeful men and women who press into this country from other countries that we should leave them without that friendly and intimate instruction which will enable them very soon after they come to find out what America is like at heart and what America is intended for among the nations of the world.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address to the Citizenship Convention at Wilson Normal School

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