5,300 Quotes About America
- Author Jonathan Heatt
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Guns give Evil a means to expression.
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- Author John Lydon
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These were early days for me in the American culture, and so I wasn’t aware that when people are showing you guns, they’re not threatening you, it’s like they’re showing you their art collection. For me, at that point, what he was presenting to me was very challenging.
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- Author Oscar Wilde
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The Icelanders are the most intelligent race on earth, because they discovered America and never told anyone.
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- Author Alex Bosworth
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One day, back when I working at a video store, a woman accompanied by her two small sons walked up the counter with a tape box displaying a man slicing off someone’s head with a chainsaw. “Does this have any sex in it?” she asked. In my mind, it was like I was narrating a nature documentary on humans. “Watch as the American mother protects her young ones from dangerous influences.
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- Author James Baldwin
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I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. But I am also concerned for their dignity, for the health of their souls, and must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them.
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- Author Jonathan Heatt
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America: Land of the free and home of the gun. We are not brave, we are cowards, or we would have done something, anything after Newtown. Instead we did Nothing.
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- Author Bryant McGill
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The fish does not know it is wet. America is immersed in violence. The violence is in our souls. The enemy is within.
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- Author Bryant McGill
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In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Are we so utterly foolish that to repent of our ignorance will require the destruction of our lives? And if this is the sad reality, then let us be destroyed so that we can begin the process of rebuilding.
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