American Dream Quotes - Page 7

• I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Son

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• When I did TV shows and movies, the studios did demographic research. They were shocked to find that my audience isn't just men who are too drunk to turn off the TV after football. It's women, too. I don't know exactly why, other than that I've tried to remain true to myself for all these years. I have gone through a lot, and I've been open about it. Maybe they look at me and can see how you can grow up, have children, continue to be sexy, get married and divorced and, though you grew up poor, live the American dream. I'm very blessed. I'm happy for it all.

  Pamela Anderson

  Sexy, Football, Dream

  Playboy, May 2004.

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• Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Kids

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• The American Dream is a romantic notion but it's newer - not as pretty. You go to Europe, and it says something about the type of person you are. You're in search of something more intimate and more about yourself.

  Kate Hudson

  Dream, Europe, Intimate

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• My parents are proud of their Indian heritage, but they came halfway across the world so their children could be born here, raised here as Americans. They came legally, but they came here in search of the American dream, in search of freedom and opportunity.

  Bobby Jindal

  Dream, Children, Opportunity

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2015.

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• The American dream? We don't have a dream in Britain because we're bloody awake!

  Al Murray

  Dream, America, World

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• The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods.

  Harvey Milk

  Dream, Neighborhood

  Harvey Milk (2013). “An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings”, p.32, Univ of California Press

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• That is the heart and soul of the American dream, homeownership, the idea of being able to buy a house and start to build your family.

  Wendell Pierce

  Dream, Heart, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?

  Michelle Malkin

  Dream, Guarantees

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• If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

  Rand Paul

  Dream, Taken, Dies

  Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2012.

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• You have the American dream! The dream is to be born in a gutter and grow up, and then get all the money in the world and stick it in your ears and go THBBBBBT.

  Eddie Izzard

  Dream, Growing Up, Gutters

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• Theres no doubt about it: Hillary is the best person to be our 45th president. Hillary has always been a tireless advocate for working families - shes never ceased to make sure everybody has a fair shot at achieving the American Dream.

  Joaquin Castro

  Dream, Doubt, President

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• I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

  Jackie Collins

  Dream, Real, Writing

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• Imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream.

  Ted Cruz

  Dream, Immigration, Imagine

  Ted Cruz's Announcement on Presidential Campaign at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, www.independent.co.uk. March 23, 2015.

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• Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search.

  William McKeen

  Dream, Heart, Found

  "Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson". Book by William McKeen, Chapter 11, Making A Beast Of Himself, July 13, 2009.

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• No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after all, is to live long and die young.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Dream, Long, Funeral

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• In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one day everyone, or at least practically everyone, would be a manager or a professional. We would use the most elitist of all means, scholarship, toward the most egalitarian of ends. We would all become chiefs; hardly anyone would be left a mere Indian.

  William A. Henry III

  Dream, Mean, Vision

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• We have to stand up for these issues when it's tough, and that's what I've done. I did it when I was in the state legislature, sponsoring the Illinois version of the DREAM Act, so that children who were brought here through no fault of their own are able to go to college, because we actually want well-educated kids in our country who are able to succeed and become part of this economy and part of the American dream.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Country, Children

  The California Democratic Debate in Los Angeles, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 31, 2008.

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• Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is rewarded, not punished. The Wright Brothers did not have their wings melt when they flew too high. Perhaps their wings were more soundly built than those of Icarus.

  John C. Wright

  Uplifting, Dream, Brother

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• I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and the bitterness that comes when there is no hope and a lot of despair. So I wanted to build the company, in a sense, that my father never got a chance to work for.

  Howard Schultz

  Inspirational, Dream, Father

  "Full of beans" by Terry Macalister, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2004.

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• So, yes, we do celebrate America today because the majority will stand up and empower the American people to live that American Dream and to be part of making a better, freer, and safer world.

  Robin Hayes

  Dream, America, People

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• The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The American Dream was about individualism and the opportunity to achieve success without interference from others.

  Robert Ringer

  Dream, Opportunity, Government

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• Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Dream, Years, Racism

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• These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Dream, Home, Reality

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• Painful as it may be to hear it, there's nothing special about the people of this country that sets them apart from the other people of the world. It is the Bill of Rights, and only the Bill of Rights, that keeps us from becoming the world's biggest banana republic. The moment we forget that, the American Dream is over.

  Alexander Beresford Hope

  Dream, Country, Rights

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