America Quotes - Page 18

• Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on.

  Prince

  Focus, Hip Hop, Black

  "Tribute to Prince Part 1". The Travis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. April 22, 2016.

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• I like to service the full audience of America, so I try to do things that are just real artistic, like when they don't have the most money, but it's a great piece of work. Then, there are big, fun comedies and big animated movies for kids. I want to do things for my nieces and nephews. Ultimately, we're trying to deliver something entertaining to an audience. As long as it can entertain the audience, and it makes me or my niece and nephew laugh or cry, then I think it's good.

  Queen Latifah

  Fun, Real, Niece

  "Queen Latifah, Neil Meron, and Craig Zadan Talk STEEL MAGNOLIAS and How the Lifetime Version Is Different from the Original". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 4, 2012.

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• I learned in America a long time ago, the three R's, the principle of three R's - reuse, reduce, recycle. And as I say those words, there are so many things individually we can do to reduce - we don't need to consume as much as we are consuming. Reduce. And by reusing, we can reuse a lot of things we just throw into the dumpsite. And reduce the production. The more we reuse, the more we can reduce.

  Wangari Maathai

  Long, Principles, Three

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean, this has been a running thread - and - and fault line in American life and American politics since its founding.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Mean, Race

  Interview with Jon Sopel on BBC, www.bbc.com. July 24, 2015.

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• America is very important economically. It's certainly, by far, the most important country in the world.

  Mikhail Saakashvili

  Country, Important, World

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• America has value-based leadership. America is valued - America is followed by other nations, including my own nation, because it's based on the values that America has to offer to the rest of the world - freedom, freedom of choice, democracy, open market.

  Mikhail Saakashvili

  Choices, Democracy, World

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.

  Nate Parker

  Healing, Native American, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My dream is that as the years go by and the world knows more and more of America, itwill turn to America for those moral inspirations that lie at the basis of all freedomthat America will come into the full light of the day when all shall know that she puts human rights above all other rights, and that her flag is the flag not only of America but of humanity.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Dream, Lying, Inspiration

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• I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morningwith a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Wise, Drinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are no people in the world who are so slow to develop hostile feelings against a foreign country as the Americans, and no people who, once estranged, are more difficult to win back.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Winning, People

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Father, Son, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.153, Penguin

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• For some of us it seems like yesterday when Ike was in the White House, the U.S. Senate censured Joe McCarthy, and the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public school was unconstitutional.

  Malcolm Forbes

  School, White, Yesterday

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• We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively-that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business.... the two are interdependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other, and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the legs of a giant.

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless

  Business, Believe, Cutting

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• There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Freedom, Our Generation, Order

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• We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy,or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.

  Mark Twain

  Daughter, Envy, Titles

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.80, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Humble, Men

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.284, Courier Corporation

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• Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American. All privileges based on wealth, and all enmity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American-both of them equally so. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Safety, Firsts

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• Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.

  Maya Angelou

  Leadership, Wisdom, Country

  'His Day Is Done' - Poem in Tribute to Nelson Mandela, delivered December 2013

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• The colleges of Edinburgh and Geneva as seminaries of science, are considered as the two eyes of Europe. While Great Britain and America give the preference to the former, all other countries give it to the latter.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Eye, College

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.109

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• There is a need for heroism in American life today.

  Vicki Baum

  Life, Time, Role Models

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• I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America.

  Carl Sandburg

  Trying, Bed, Dies

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• An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Home, Land

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• Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?

  June Jordan

  Running, New York, Men

  June Jordan (1985). “On call: political essays”, South End Pr

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• There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.

  August Wilson

  Writing, Ideas, Forever

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• The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Economic, Danger, Position

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