“America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being—confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future oriented—is a vast improvement over the wretched, servile, fatalistic, and intolerant human being that traditional societies have always produced, and that Islamic societies produce now.”

— Dinesh D'Souza

Source: Books, What's So Great About America (2003), Ch. 6: America the Beautiful

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