Quotes on Birth Place

Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.

For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.

Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.