Fight for our nation
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"A person who either by birth or upbringing or residence in Singapore feels committed to upholding this society as it is - multi-racial, tolerant, accommodating, forward-looking - and prepared to stake his life for this community."
PRIME MINISTER LEE KUAN YEW in September 1968, giving an emotive definition of a Singaporean

