America Quotes
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The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable. ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.
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Let no man of us budge one step, and let slaveholders come to beat us from our country. America is more our country, than it is the whites-we have enriched it with our blood and tears. The greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears.
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It's the warmest, loveliest community I've ever set foot in. For me, it's the perfect place to live. It's the best part of America.
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We're in a crisis. We're in a crisis like I don't think America has ever known in my lifetime. But we have to keep joy in our lives, love in our lives, poetry in our lives, dancing in our lives.
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Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
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Lady stand on line before me, speak English so good, like genius, in America only four years, I ashamed tell twenty-two years; I tell twenty!” To class she went only once. “I don’t go back,” she said emphatically. “Too foolish book, Dick and Jane.” She shrugged disdainfully. “Not Tolstoi!"
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When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John Hawkins. Now, you know who John Hawkins was.He was a slave trader from England. But the white people of that time, if one had five slaves and his name was Jones, they would be called Jones' property. [...] Now that I'm free, now that I'm no longer a slave, then I want a name of my ancestors.
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The election of Barack Obama was a very wonderful step forward for America, which has unfortunately been tainted by the ugly reaction of some right wing activist who are doing their best to cast aspersions on his character and to question his religion and citizenship.
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Every dollar added to the price of oil weakens America and strengthens her enemies.
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I would like the Supreme Court to understand that voting rights are still a big problem in many parts of our country America, that we don't always do everything we can to make it possible for people of color and older people and young people to be able to exercise their franchise.
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We can't renew America unless more of us, I mean all of us, are willing to join churches.
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Congress increasingly represents the diversity of America.
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Let's say loudly and clearly, Right to Work is wrong for workers and wrong for America.
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I spoke in the United States of America and in Canada and other countries already have good results with immigration, that it cannot be compared everything to Europe.
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To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value.
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Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.
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America has no functioning democracy at this moment.
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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America.
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We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.
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Part of America is we've always had people that can get things done.
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America is not at war with Islam. And it is a mistake and it plays into the hands of the terrorists to act as though we are.
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I've always been business-minded. I worked in corporate America before becoming an actress and knew that acting wasn't the end but a means to an end. It gave me the platform and the exposure I needed to do my philanthropic work. It also gave me the financial security to focus on my other businesses, start new businesses, and even help other people start businesses.
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America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.
