This quote, “ I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.”, is by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Ros-Lehtinen’s quote apprehends the American dream the same way, Franklin D. Roosevelt's essay, “Address on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Statue of Liberty”, and Frank Leslie's, illustration, “Scene on the Steerage Deck” does because they all three acknowledge the American dream as a land of liberty and escapades. The American promise is the pledge of freedom and adventure.
In both. Franklin D. Roosevelt's, “Address on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Statue of Liberty”, and Frank Leslie's, “Scene on the Steerage