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To: Roscoe
Careful, you'll upset the bigots

I assume this fellow's attitudes would also classify as bigotry:

"Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond the limits of these principles and involving dangers which the society chooses to avoid, they must go somewhere else for their exercise; that we want no citizens, and still less ephemeral and pseudo-citizens, on such terms. We may exclude them from our territory, as we do persons infected with disease." -- Thomas Jefferson

Appears substantilally to represent the views of this forum.

Wonder where I found this quote? Couldn't have been on your personal page could it? Naw.

34 posted on 09/02/2002 10:37:48 AM PDT by Amerigomag
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To: Amerigomag
"Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond the limits of these principles and involving dangers which the society chooses to avoid, they must go somewhere else for their exercise; that we want no citizens, and still less ephemeral and pseudo-citizens, on such terms. We may exclude them from our territory, as we do persons infected with disease." -- Thomas Jefferson

And there are bigots who would dishonestly contend that all immigrants fit that profile. Thanks for the example.

39 posted on 09/02/2002 10:47:57 AM PDT by Roscoe
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To: Amerigomag
the society chooses to avoid,

Great quote. Tragically, our society chooses to accept these days instead of avoiding.

53 posted on 09/02/2002 11:20:06 AM PDT by raybbr
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To: Amerigomag
"Appears substantilally to represent the views of this forum. Wonder where I found this quote? Couldn't have been on your personal page could it?

Good shot!

73 posted on 09/02/2002 12:10:43 PM PDT by sweetliberty
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