Let us have done with British-Americans and Irish-Americans and German-Americans, and so on, and all be Americans... If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives; and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

Henry Cabot Lodge

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Assimilation America

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Henry Cabot Lodge

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1888 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Politician

From

United States

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Citation

Lodge, Henry Cabot. "The Day We Celebrate." New England Society of Brooklyn meeting. 21 Dec. 1888, Brooklyn, New York City, NY, USA.

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Authentication Score 3
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Lazarus, Emma. "The New Colossus." Statue of Liberty published catalog. c. 1883, I. 10.

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Genre
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Language
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Time
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