More than 2.000 years ago. Pericles. the eminent Athenian statesman. put it most succinctly: "When it is a question of settling private disputes. everyone is equal before the law. when it is a question of putting one person before another in positions of public responsibility. what counts is not membership of a particular class. but the actual ability which the person possesses." The bond between the United States and Greece was cemented at the rebirth of Greek independence. when the United States Declaration of Independence was translated and used by the Greeks as their own. By the early 1900s. one out of four Greek males between the ages of 15 and 45 emigrated to the United States. Since then Greek Americans have distinguished themselves in the fields of education. religion. music. medicine. theater. and politics. Their contributions today to the American society and culture are no less than those of their ancestors of ancient Greece to the world community.
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