Which statement describes the author’s main purpose in the text this is not who we are

The main purpose of the text is to encourage Arab Americans to be proud of their cultural heritage, even in times of prejudice, xenophobia and intolerance.

Explanation:

In "This is not who we are" we are introduced to concepts that seek to elevate the identification of Arab Americans with their Arab cultural heritage, allowing them to identify with this culture even in difficult times, where the prejudice against this ethnic group is so strong.

samuel gompers was an extremely important person in the american labor movement, being him an employee all his life he devoted himself to fight for the rights of his pairs, he believed they all had the right to have better thing and that they all were working for them but the factory workers were greedy, ambitions and socialist people for him who he didn't have a good concept of.

he gave so many speeches and led so many strikes and protest to fight for equality which he considered employers didn't want to accept, so he had an absolutely negative opinion of them.

in the quotation from passage, connie willis states that literature is a way for authors from the past to communicate with readers of today. we can read their stories, books, and other texts to learn lessons about life. willis refers to these lessons as messages “from beyond the grave.” willis has a favorable viewpoint about the timelessness of literature.