Americans
Americans, or American people, are the citizens of the United States of America. The country is home to people of different national origins. As a result, Americans do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship. With the exception of the Native American population, nearly all Americans or their ancestors immigrated within the past five centuries.
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“The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities—a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
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—Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924)
“We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people—the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)