Friday Philosophy

I like this quote from the American author Ralph Ellison (1914-1994). I think that those who are rabidly opposed to immigration into this country are generally ignorant of how (socially, politically, intellectually) we came to be in the first place:

"America is woven of many strands. I would
recognize them and let it so remain. Our fate
is to become one, and yet many. This is not
prophecy, but description."