"Until we abandon our manifold private agendas and unite we will merely be observers standing at the bottom of a dark, deep pit, wistfully hoping to save the world, but really doing little more than breaking the fall of compatriots who are pushed in on top of us.
Only by uniting in a common effort devoid of selfish interests will we be able to mold the human spirit upon which we may ascend to freedom.
That is the real and true meaning of the term, 'united States'; in the modern sense, the people of the separate and sovereign republics united to defeat Fascism, the eternal enemy of all humankind."
— William C. Kern, San Diego 1996
