America Quotes
The United States is like one big jail for Black people, because we're locked into a mentality and a mindset that limits our potential. It has us against us.
When you're marginalized, there are no "them people, " if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin.
Segmentation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
It's hard to imagine hate that I am facing from allover the world yet I am not alone with mistakes.
The point of racism is to dehumanize those targeted by the racism. Violence as a reaction to injustice provides ammunition to racists.
Unfortunately, 'post racism' is also a myth, like unicorns and black people who survive to the end of a horror movie.
They walked off down the hall in the direction of a sign that said Colored Waiting Room. Billie guessed white folks didn't have to wait.
We give more economic aid to multinational corporations to increase their profits than we do to all the countries in the world combined.
It is impossible to read this opening paragraph without an involuntary feeling of religious awe
Behind the facade of elected government are a bunch of corporate controlled gangsters running the country.
And why have you burnt our Gods, when others are brought from other Regions by the Spaniards? Are the Gods of other Provinces more sacred than ours?
More than any other colonial founder, Oglethorpe made himself one of the people, promoting collective effort.
Prince Maxon surveyed the room and found me. Our eye met for a moment, and he smiled.
Ernst was still in the Eastern Zone, about ninety kilometres from Berlin, when the truck emerged so inexplicably out of nowhere that it seemed to have been created by the rain itself.
In the midst of combat, we learned a great deal about mankind and its many different races, creeds and beliefs.
Harper: You, the one part ofthe real world I wasn't allergic to.
Roy: The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become. All else is vanity.
I guess I'd rather have a truthful neighbor who says he hates me than a lyin' one who claims he loves me.
Yessir, some things is sin 'cause God says so. Some things is sin 'cause they hurt other people. And some things is just pure-dee stupid.
I tried to get away from him, to get to that door, but instead I backed up against the wall and was stuck there in that white, white room.
The media will mess your way of thinking up, don't take they word for nothing do your on research.
Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes altogether and enable Latino-Americans to rethink what America is supposed to look like.
A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn’t open to anywhere good.
If I hadn't trained Lula Ann properly she wouldn't have known to always cross the street and avoid white boys.
Life is about love and as a country that stands united, we lose in the battle that we call love.
It was over, and I knew that. But you don't love someone for almost two years and then turn it off overnight...
This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they are better than others.
House rule number nine. No roach shall drink or eat out of the good cups in the kitchen. The plastic cups are in the pantry.
Prejudice is not a symptom of stupidity. Nor is it a symptom of evil. It is merely a symptom of ignorance.
Before the constitution can protect the people it must first protect the person.
Centuries-old wounds are still raw because they never healed right in the first place. Here is the essential truth. We are better together than we are apart.
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true and the opposite is probably equally true.
If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.
Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth that there are no gains without pains.
Ours is the country where in order to sell your product you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.
That strange blend of the commercial traveller the missionary and the barbarian conqueror which was the American abroad.
The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what they ought to do without getting kissed.