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By Jimmy Carter
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Source
- Remarks at a Kennedy-Lawrence Dinner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1976
- Read at
- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From Carter's remarks at a Kennedy-Lawrence dinner in Pittsburgh, October 27, 1976, while a candidate. He is speaking of how Americans who come from many places keep their own heritage.