Columbus is much more than an explorer who made a landfall in the New World. He was a pathfinder for a new spirit. One that resulted in a New World ethic symbolized by the flow of refugees that still continues. Our Nation contains today the heirs and assigns of all those millions who followed him. From his discovery came the establishment of an entire new set of ideas that have been expanded into what we now know as the American way of life. Thirty million refugees have come to these shores. Almost all of them have sought freedom. liberty. and the chance to live a better life than the one they left. All were the refugees that other nations did not want. All were fleeing oppression of one sort or another. All have found a haven and refuge because one man lit the lamp here first by his deeds of discovery and exploration.
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