On the other subject—America is an ideal, a state of mind, a way of looking at things. It isn’t one religion, education, kind of food, clothes, or ethnicity*. It’s the understanding that we are legally equal**, and stand before the laws of this country equally. This is not a big man-little man country, it’s an equal men country.

*There are an awful lot of us who don’t have one specific ethnicity.

**Legally equal is different from literally equal. Some of us are smarter, or faster, or better looking than others. That’s life. The law is blind to those things, though.