It can mean "I love freedom." It can mean "I fled from tyranny and oppression." It can mean "I love the ways of democracy." Finally it can mean "I am ready to strive and to fight for freedom and justice and prosperity for allfor all my fellow Americans and for all people everywhere." It is a fact that the men. women. and children to whom this occasion is dedicated feel and respond to one or more of these meanings more actively than some nativeborn Americans. many of whom are Inclined to take these values for granted. Most. if not all. of those who have come to these shores of their own volition and have consciously foresworn their old allegiances to take the oath of allegiance to the United States of America and to the principles for which it stands--are among the most fervent. sincere and zealous advocates of those principles. This is especially true of those who are escapees or refugees from behind the Iron Curtain and from other areas of the earth where. not freedom. but tyranny reignsand I Include such countries as the Do. minican Republic used to be. and as Cuba is today. They know what it means to be an American. They know the real meaning of Americanism.
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Immigrants are more appreciative of freedom and democracy than native-born Americans.