5,300 Quotes About America

Black people will always find each other in the passage between death and America

Between the tenets of those two men [W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington], a race strived to untangle its convoluted root, urged its whole self forward, and hurtled toward the door America had fought so hard to keep closed.

Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true:That even as we grieved, we grewThat even as we hurt, we hopedThat even as we tired, we tried

If we're to live up to our own time,then victory won't lie in the blade.But in all the bridges we've made,that is the promise to glade,the hill we climb.If only we dare.It's because being American is more than a pride we inherit,it's the past we step intoand how we repair it.

Tyranny is locking us up. Tyranny is taking our freedom. Tyranny is right here. Tyranny is American.

Plecase de acasă pentru a fugi, însă acum se întoarce în fugă spre acasă. Își lăsase jos o piele, pe care o oferise americanilor pentru a o agăța în cui - o piele falsă, urâtă, cinică și nefericită – şi se întorsese cu una nouă, curată, plină de speranţă şi dragoste pentru tot ce există în jur.


As a country, we seem to be suffering from an empathy deficit.

Gridlock is best understood not as governmental failure but as a policy failure, indicating that neither party has been able to come up with an idea attractive enough to the other party's voters to enable its implementation.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country. My citizens of the world. Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.