5,300 Quotes About America





  • Author Guy Davenport
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    I also wish I knew why millions of bright American children turn overnight into teenage nerds. The substitution of the automobile for the natural body, which our culture has effected in the most evil perversion of humanity since chivalry, is one cause; narcosis by drugs and Dionysian music is another.

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  • Author D.B. Mays
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    Black Lives Matter, Too"Black Lives Matter doesn’t mean this fist, but it does mean resistWhen oppression and injustice are not up for discussionInsurrections and protections when wrongs aren’t corrected. It means black is equal, inherits the same rights,Liberties, protections, and the pursuit of happiness as whites

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  • Author John Keay
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    Liang Qichao came away disappointed. American democracy seemed to spawn "mediocre politicians, corruption, disorder, racism, imperialism". "In short," noted the late J K Fairbank, most prolific and influential of America's sinologists, "he got our number, and it turned him off.

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