Henry Louis Gates Quotes

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

Henry Louis Gates

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• During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

  

  Kate Smith
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• There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.

  

  Jack Adams
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• I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.

  

  Eddie Huang
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• America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

  

  Larry Elder
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• We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
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• The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

  

  Ralph Nader
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• I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Up
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• Our nation has abundant clean energy resources, and tapping them will generate jobs, make the air safer to breathe, and tackle climate change - the greatest environmental crisis of our time.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Time
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• When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.

  

  Jack Herer
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• What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?

  

  Randall Terry
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• In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

  

  A. E. Housman
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• I liked the America of Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton - it was all a dream, of course, but a very alluring dream for a young man from Canton.

  

  I. M. Pei
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• Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
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• Ronald Reagan believed in America as the shining city on the hill - Morning in America. But Donald Trump has a much different vision of American greatness, of nationalism - a much darker view, I think, of the world.

  

  Charlie Sykes
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• America is a great country. I've been in the south, in the center and in the north. I like it. Americans are very good people. There's just too much air-conditioning.

  

  Mario Balotelli
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• It would be very ungrateful of me to turn my back or stop doing work in Latin America.

  

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• I love America, and I love to say that my family is American.

  

  James Spithill
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• I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes.

  

  Keith Olbermann
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• The destiny of the colored American … is the destiny of America.

  

  Frederick Douglass
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• The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in its round,That never has been fathomed yet by myriad thoughts profound.

  

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• Men have just come up to me and asked for my number right away. That doesn't work. You have to know somebody and have a conversation.

  

  Leah Remini
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• I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • America
  • Air
  • Racism