- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
- Drop-Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love America a lot. I really do.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2009, I edited, under the aegis of the Library of America, an anthology called 'Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today.' It featured immigrants from different backgrounds, from black slaves like Phillis Wheatley to Yiddish-language speakers like Henry Roth.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two prominent terms, 'Latino' and 'Hispanic,' refer to people living in the United States who have roots in Latin America, Spain, Mexico, South America, or Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a special place, and I believe in the prominence of America, and having America be and continue to be an exceptional place, and making no apologies for America being a superpower.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's our time to fight for the America we know we can have.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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- Nov 07, 2020