The United States Quotes
An hour later, Amina stood at a pay phone in a mall hallway, where poop and perfume and the grease from the food court formed the kind of atmosphere you might find in Jupiter's red spot
Because discipline is misunderstood or not as valued as it has been, the United States—and some might argue the world—is experiencing a cultural leadership crisis.
I would rather have 10, 000 stories than 10, 000 in my bank account @myhumancompass Roy ('Backpack') Baron author of Looking Glass Shattered.
My last thought before falling asleep was that we are all a lot more capable of conquering obstacles and fears than we think.
In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.
When you turn a blind eye to atrocities, you are complicit in them.
Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.
If you love your country, you must be willing to defend it from fraud, bigotry, and recklessness--even from a president.
On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.
Nearly every historic fruit and vegetable variety once found in the United States has disappeared.
I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.
I sincerely hope that President Barack Obama’s government will be remembered as the peak of deregulated corporate corruption and not the ongoing rise of it.
It's one thing to stick to your guns. It's quite another to hold those guns to the heads of your citizens.
I don't believe in the Constitution because I'm American, I'm American because I believe in the Constitution.
It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right.
America does not have a health-car system. We have a sick-care system... It's a stretch to use the word "system" to describe, as this word denotes organization.
Interestingly, the more Americans report knowing about Muslim countries, the more likely they are to hold positive views of those countries. (p. 155)
America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.
Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?
The U.S. didn't achieve its liberty or prosperity by mistake. It was by design, and the architects were the Founding Fathers. Don't mess with the Constitution. The Constitution matters.
There are people who think they can dance out of slavery. “I’m going to do escapist drugs and hop from one party or festival to another. I will dance my out of the harsh realities of Planet Earth
...the freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life.
The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.
Every Canadian has a complicated relationship with the United States, whereas Americans think of Canada as the place where the weather comes from.
I am groping about through this American forest of prejudice and proscription, determined to find some form of civilization where all men will be accepted for what they are worth.
After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece.
Powerlessness can be a self-fulfilling prophesy. There is much that is wrong with America. But it will only be made right only if we force change to occur.
America is harmless as an enemy but treacherous as a friend.
Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word "nuclear.
There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime. That is not an exaggeration.
Guantánamo Bay's motto: 'Safe, humane, legal, transparent detention.' Four adjectives describing one sick joke.
As a Republic governed through the utilization of a democratic process, elections are necessary in order to give every United States citizen a voice in the governing of this great nation.
The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter.
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.
No genuine revolutionary challenge to either the State or Capitalism in the United States can fail to ignore racism's importance in maintaining the current system.
We give more economic aid to multinational corporations to increase their profits than we do to all the countries in the world combined.
The main difference between a lawyer and a prostitute is that a prostitute won't screw you after you're dead.
We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people...
Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday.
Two hundred years after Euro-Americans "discovered" it, America's river west begins and ends at pollution.
Fracking is different. The risks of any single well are tiny compared to a nuclear power plant. But several hundred wells? Several thousand?
I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything
All my life I’ve lived a beautiful lie. The governor’s son with the bright future set for him. The middle child. The one who no one knew how bad he was suffering until it made the nightly news.
All right. They’re on our left. They’re on our right. They’re in front of us, they’re behind us. They can’t get away this time’.