America Quotes

You see, evil men, the likes of whom have sought to enslave their fellow man since the dawn of creation, took America not by might or strength of arms, but by deception and guile.

The few Americans he had encountered in his lifetime had all seemed flat to him, as if freedom weakened one's capacity for intense emotion by demanding too little of it.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnows.

Censorship is alive and well in America.

You can’t spell American without “I can.

With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.

Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can't have everything you want exactly when you want it has somehow become un-American.

Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.

In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.

...sometimes offering a quality daily opinion about what’s going on in American politics feels like trying to compose a beautiful symphony using only the recorded screams of psychiatric patients.

A president who has incited violence inspires citizens towards hate and violence.

Their courtship unfolded in two settings, a Russian reality overlaid with New York memories

Florence imagined the Hammer and Sickle metallurgical plant to be an enormous brick factory like the ones in New York. But as she approached she saw it was in fact a small city of its own

A Red Riding Hood out of her depths in the woods of socialism

She was arriving at a revelation that the secret to living was simply forgetting

Denying the popular vote is un-American and anti-democratic.

We elected a man who knows how to build walls when we needed someone who knows how to build bridges.

We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what’s not quite right is quite wrong.

The Democratic Party of the USA would greatly appreciate your cooperation with re-installing Mr & Mrs Pinocchio into the White House.

The Democrats would like you to believe that the USA is the 'Greatest nation on Earth'. Is this true? The Republicans answer this question by stating there is a need to 'Make America Great Again

I always wondered if they’d change you.

The USA is a beautiful country...when you take the corrupt corporations and their government minions out of the equation.

People of color are allowed, even required to perform, and, especially these days on issues of race, to edify as well. 'Here you are, now entertain us'. But are we allowed to lead?

Acknowledging that all our land was stolen from Native people feels like too great a burden, so we create an alternative reality that allows us to disengage emotionally from the truth.

For most Americans, our most precious possession is citizenship in this amazing country.

Still, compared to him, compared to the people we descend from, I am free of history. I'm so free of history I have to get in a car and drive seven states to find it.

Evolution takes its sweet time in its work on our collective consciousness

When one attains self-knowledge, distinctions of race and religion vanish.

As Americans, we must protect our humanity while fighting terrorism. It we lose that…they have surely won.

Nature has wrought with a bolder hand in America.

Our fight against racism should not be a matter of black and white, but good and evil.

Doomed people celebrate peace with sky bombs.

America is the most fertile ground of opportunity.

Laugh with fake id's but i have permanent license of pain in eyes

He had to die someday too. He might do it on sheets with a six-hundred-plus thread count, but he'd die just the same. Death wouldn't forget about him.

The first thing you lose when you die is your motor skills.

Only God can break through the variegated walls of skin to capture the one and only hue of the heart. One Blood.

It is easier to start a war than to end it.

Maybe he wouldn't end up the kind of man who needed to use his body for work. Maybe he'd be a new kind of black man altogether, one who got to use his mind.

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]

You are not the world, but you are everything that makes the world good. Without you, my life would still exist, but that's all it would manage to do.

You can't live in the world without an idea of the world, but it's living that makes the ideas. You can't wait for a theory, but you have to have a theory.

Like many people who became sick, I found that researching man-made radiation immersed me into a corporate world of lie, confuse and deny.

Passion without purpose is like a shot without a target.

Reality rarely changes

There is no model, no actress, no Miss America contender that can outshine a happy, confident, secure woman.

I’m not holding myself out as a model, but I do believe that we in America can ask more of children than we typically do, and they will not only respond to the challenge, but thrive.

The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothing more than the color of their skin, is now a fossilized aberration that serves no useful purpose.

[I]n America, wrongs can be righted, warriors can wear skirts and blouses, and the bravest heartsmay beat in girlsonly five feet tall.

Nowadays, a simple faulty brake light traffic stop, can get a black person killed. It's better to fix the broken light bulb, then having to face and cooperate with a senseless police officer.