policy to make sure that the most ambitious people in the world still want to be a part of us," Rice told the packed ballroom. "We are a society of immigrants and if we ever think that we can close our doors, we will suffer the same fate of those in Europe and other places." As a young black girl growing up in one of the most segregated states in the South, Condoleezza Rice knows a thing or two about rising from humble beginnings. Full Article at The San Jose Mercury News