"I believe Americans are beautiful, individually, in communities, and freely joined together by dedication to the United States of America. I see a growing danger in this country to conformity of thought and taste and behavior. We need more encouragement and protection for individuality. The wealth we have of culture, ethnic, and religious and racial traditions are valuable counterbalances to the overpowering sameness and subordination of totalitarian societies. The sense of belonging to any group that stands for something decent and noble, so long as it does not confine the free spirits of or cultivate hostility to others, is part of the pride every American should have in the heritage of the past."