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- 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
- Best Part
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I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!
- Life
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President Kennedy's life and death represent both what is possible in America, and all of the work left undone.
- Promises
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In 2008, I was inspired by President Obama's vision for America and all the promises that he laid out for our country.
- Grandfather
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If the Kennedys had been barred from entering America after fleeing Ireland during the famine, my grandfather never would have been president.
- Dream
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Obama set a record number of deportations of illegal immigrants in 2011, but that fact alone is misleading. Obama has spoken in favor of and has urged Congress to pass the DREAM Act, a bill that would allow young undocumented immigrants to stay in America, their home, and achieve citizenship by going to college or serving in the military.
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The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
- People
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
- Night
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
- Power
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There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
- Socialism
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Seriously, you can't talk socialism in America without going to the OG, Sen. Bernie Sanders.
- Class
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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