Bernice Johnson Reagon Quotes
The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American.
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We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
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In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
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I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
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And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.
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Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.
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I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it.
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No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.
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Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.
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I'm married to an American. I work for a company that is, you know, its headquarters in the U.S.
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One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
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I have this whole thing that when God gives you more that you have imagined, you should give it back.
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When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.
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I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.
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The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American.
