5,300 Quotes About America

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.

Americans need to continue to develop broad-based movements that reject the established political parties and rethink the social formations necessary to bring about a radical democracy. We see this in the Black Lives Matter movement as well as in a range of other movements that are resisting corporate money in politics, the widespread destruction of the environment, nuclear war and the mass incarceration state.

I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.

Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.

I wanted everything from and everything for him, because I wanted every piece of him.

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.

America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamourous reasonable voice.