We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution. (Samuel P. Huntington)

We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.

Samuel P. Huntington

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