What defines a people is not race, not tradition, not geography, but the free choice of a group of human beings to live together as fellow citizens. (Thomas G. West)

What defines a people is not race, not tradition, not geography, but the free choice of a group of human beings to live together as fellow citizens.

Thomas G. West

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