Our prime need as a nation is that every American should understand and work with his fellow-citizens, getting into touch with them, so that by actual contact he may learn that fundamentally he and they have the same interests, needs, and aspirations.
In "The Strenuous Life," Roosevelt emphasizes the national necessity for citizens to engage with one another to recognize shared fundamental interests.
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