That dream has been that a person could come from a foreign country. speaking a foreign language. and find in this Nation equality of opportunity so .that that person. man or woman. could be a success in this country. That success and equality of economic opportunity has been achieved by people from Greece and people from Poland and people from Germany and Scandinavia. In our most recent three decades we have seen people come here from Hungary as refugees from the Hungarian revolution and from Czechoslovakia. We now have Koreans. Vietnamese. and Cambodians coming to this country. There is no question but that if they are to achieve equality of opportunity and to have a place of employment other than stoop labor in the fields or working in the sculleries in hotels. they must know the English language. That American dream has been that parents worked so that their children could get an education. so that they could achieve the success that that first generation of immigrants could not achieve. because of their inability to speak the English language. Now. I think it is a trap and a delusion to hold out to people of minority races from different countries that this privilege of voting is so important that they should be encouraged not to learn the English language and be entitled even so to exercise this priceless privilege of voting.
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People of minority races from different countries should be encouraged to learn English.