America
"Peace Through Strength" is the title of a book about a defense plan by Bernard Baruch, a former World War II adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, published by Farrar, Straus and Young in 1952. During the 1964 American Presidential campaign, the Republican party spent about five million dollars on "peace through strength" TV spots. For supporters of the MX missile in the 1970s, the missile symbolized "peace through strength."
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“To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box.... On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.”
—Stephen Carter (b. 1954)
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—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
“Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity—an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)