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"America has evolved a model for this new free world... America has demonstrated that peoples of the East and peoples of the West may walk side by side in mutual respect and with mutual benefit. The history of our sovereignty there has now the full confidence of the East." – Douglas MacArthur, radio address (2 September 1945)
"For all the dreams we've dreamed And all the songs we've sung And all the hopes we've held And all the flags we've hung, The millions who have nothing for our pay — Except the dream that's almost dead today. O, let America be America again — The land that never has been yet — And yet must be — the land where every man is free." – Langston Hughes, "Let America Be…
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