America Today Quotes - Page 5

• ...Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty in America today is a death sentence for tens and tens of thousands of our people.

  Bernie Sanders

  America, People, Anxiety

  "Is Poverty a Death Sentence?" by Sen. Bernie Sanders, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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• If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate.

  Malcolm X

  America, People, Black

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• Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.

  Larry King

  Summer, Jobs, Communication

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• I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors the world itself. Aside from the packaging, there is nothing that cannot be found in most churches today that could not be satisfied by any number of secular programs and self-help groups.

  Michael Horton

  Successful, Thinking, Church Today

  Michael Horton (2008). “Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church”, p.16, Baker Books

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• Poor people in America today (people who are officially in poverty) have a higher standard of living - in terms of medical standards, in terms of going to college, in terms of the way people live - than middle class people did thirty years ago.

  Michael Medved

  College, Years, Class

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• The most exciting things going on in America today are movements to change America.

  Mario Savio

  America, Movement, Today

  Mario Savio, Eugene Walker, Raya Dunayevskaya (1965). “The Free Speech Movement and the Negro revolution”

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• I think the right to read, is one of our inherent rights, and I think that people in America today are intelligent enough to decide for themselves what they want to read. Without being told, by self-appointed people, you must not read this, or you cannot read this.

  Bennett Cerf

  Intelligent, Thinking, Rights

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