- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nation Quotes
Reflections on country, community, and the work of change.
This collection brings together quotes about what a nation owes its people and what its people owe back, touching on education access, inequality, and the leaders a country produces. Several lines connect that civic outlook to a deeper belief in what a country can become.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Fast Food Nation' appeared as an article in 'Rolling Stone' before it was a book, so I was extending it from the article, and by that time, everyone could read the article.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religious liberty is the salt and light that has made us the great nation we are in a whole number of ways.
- Caring
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've always been the most generous nation in the world when it comes to caring for those outside of our borders.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
If America is an idea, which it is - we're not a nation of ethnic groups that say we're Americans because we have American blood; we have the blood of every nation in our veins - and there's something really beautiful about that, but it means that we are an idea and that we all have to buy into this idea.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The White House is not where power comes from in this country. The cities and the local communities of this nation are prepared to save Washington - and not vice versa.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
- Seed
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- Nov 07, 2020
A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
- Cowards
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.
- Deception
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- Nov 07, 2020
The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020