Name: Purpose in America | 1923 | Paramount+
Uploaded: 2026-01-16T17:42:52.000Z
Duration: 4 min 15 s
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I'm joining my husband at his ranch in Montana.

I suppose this rancher is tall and handsome and walks with a slight limp from some war wound received while ridding the great plains of savages and thieves.

Think you're the first woman to come through this office with a dime store novel in a dream?

Opportunity is something that must be seized.

A land of opportunity can only exist if those who seek a better life in America are willing and able to work for it.

America needs another beggar or prostitute like it needs another Spanish flu.

I will work alongside my husband and his family.

If you had a husband, he would be with you.

What kind of husband buries his bride in the hull of a ship, alone for a month with the rats and the peasants?

America runs ads inside every newspaper of London boasting of the endless opportunity here, the welcoming arms of America declaring, give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these the homeless tempest tossed to me.

The sonnet by Emma Lazarus, donated to raise money for the platform.

Your Statue of Liberty rests on a statue which stares down on you as you strip us of our dignity and inspect us like cattle.

You regard me with no decency or compassion.

All in the name of preserving a freedom I've seen.

In fact, I would say this is the least free I have ever felt in my life.

You must display some marketable skills to gain entry.

Seeking a passage with a bit more relevance to our current situation.

Oh, while I live to be a ruler of life, not a slave, and

nothing exterior of me shall ever take command of me.

Re examine all that you have been told and dismiss that which insults your soul.

Which is exactly what I will be doing with you, regardless of your decision.

Might want to remove that before you head home to the missus.

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Purpose in America | 1923 | Paramount+

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