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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/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought is not formed to the cadence of waves, Rhythm of the sickle, oar and milking pail](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathleen-raine/strangers-have-crossed-the-sound-but-not-the-sound-of-the-dark/)

[Kathleen Raine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathleen-raine/)

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