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> [Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/whether-our-forebears-were-strangers-who-crossed-the-atlantic-or-the/)

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