- 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
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
- American Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cockneys make good beggars. They are held in high esteem by the fraternity in America. Their resource, originality and invention, and a never-faltering tongue enable them to often attain their ends where others fail, and they succeed where the natives starve.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is quite a large clan of Scotties among American beggars. He is a good beggar for the simple reason that he is a good talker. Almost every Scotch beggar I met in the States of America was inclined to be talkative, and yet they all managed to conceal their private affairs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that people outside Chicago need to understand is that the city is not just one thing. It is one city, but it is huge and sprawling. And historically, it has been one of America's most segregated cities.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
America, the self-described greatest nation on Earth, has the highest incarceration rate on the planet.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020