- Nov 07, 2020
America Quotes
America as pride, worry, and unfinished mission.
This collection holds contrasting feelings about the country: pride in being both African American and American, and a more anxious sense that the America someone loves is slipping away. For a wider view of national pride, see Country quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the imagination, Harlem will always be the spiritual capital of black excellence in America.
- World
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the world, you are America.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or, worse, their pride in what they thought America had become. There was no great moral self-congratulation in having elected a president from Arkansas.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
- Catastrophic
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.
- Closer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain is relatively compact and much closer to the borders of the U.S.S.R. than anywhere in North America.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always seen myself as an all-American kid, you know. You're not just white or black or Asian or Latino. We're in the melting pot of America.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever the Victorians did right in England, we need to resuscitate over here. In the late 19th century, the entire English population were propagandised into buying into a certain code of morals. I would be happy if we could emulate that in some way in America.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's always been very good at providing help to people in need. It hasn't been perfect, but they've been very good at it.
- Ignorant
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a new lower class that's large and growing that has fallen away from a lot of the basic core behaviors and institutions that made America work, and we have a new upper class that's increasingly isolated from and ignorant of mainstream America.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020