I know that from experience: a man in New York City, in the Second World War, hated President Roosevelt. I said to him, “why do you hate the man?” He said, “no, there’s no reason for the hate.” He happened to be born of German parents — they were born in Germany. What did that have to do with it? We have millions of Germans in our country who are a hundred percent American. I was born in Barbados, of British stock, but I’m an American — anything that hurts this country hurts me. I am not on the outside; I am here, in America, and anything that hurts this country is hurting me. And here he’s telling me, because his parents were from Germany, he hated Roosevelt, because dollars went into the war against Germany. I said, “Germany attacked us, they declared war.” He couldn’t see that: every morning he would get before the mirror, and he would shave himself, and he would have a little conversation with Mr. Roosevelt in the mirror, and he told him off — he told him everything under the sun that was unpleasant. I said, “you’re bringing it on yourself. Mr. Roosevelt is not going to be hurt by you” — because I, too, know this principle, I’m teaching it to you — “he won’t be hurt by you, because whatever you could do, I’ll modify, and you’re only going to hurt yourself.” Well, he did — everything collapsed in his world, everything. And here was a man, a single fellow — his parents were, well, there was no reasoning in the world for it, but curiously, it was because his parents came from Germany.1189 ¶35