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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
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
- Century
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm like most people in America. I'm conservative on some things, and I'm liberal on other things.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.
- Fake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm American; I was born and raised in America, and I don't want to fake who I am to fit a stereotype.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020