5,300 Quotes About America
- Author Paula Gunn Allen
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Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget.
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- Author Paula Gunn Allen
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Wars of imperial conquest have not been solely or even mostly waged over the land and its resources, but they have been fought within the bodies, minds and hearts of the people of the earth for dominion over them.
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- Author Jeffrey G. Duarte
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Affirmative Action is in place because the systems of society were put in place to favor one race of people who had a 300 year head start on people of color. I am calling for better education so people like you understand who America truly is.
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- Author North Morgan
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In the gym, you don't have to say anything, you just have to work out and make studied eye contact (or not make eye contact at all) and someone will come up and talk to you eventually, if they like your triceps. Especially in America. Oh America. How do they bring you up like that? So forward, upbeat, and self-assured? I'm not really complaining. It's just that when you come talk to me, I'm a little bit scared.
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- Author Alyssa Cole
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When the Founding Fathers put quill to parchment and scrawled 'all men are created equal' they codified this country as a shining beacon of hope in the world. On paper. In reality, the same men who signed that document went back to their homes and were greeted by their slaves. Slaves to cook for them. Slaves to clean for them. Slaves to fuck.
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- Author Charles Bowden
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Americans place 'strong subjective value' on the Father of Waters and will block any diminishment of its flow.
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- Author Barack Obama
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I was trying to raise myself to be a black man in America, and beyond the given of my appearance, no one around me seemed to know exactly what that meant
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- Author Sonia Sanchez
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this country might havebeen a pio neer landonce.but. there ain’tno mo indians blowingcuster’s mind with a differentimage of america. this countrymight have needed shoot/outs/daily/ once. but. there ain’tno mo real/white/ allamerican bad/guys.just. u & me. blk/and un/armed.this country might havebeen a pion eer land. once. and it still is.check out the fallinggun/shells on our blk/tomorrows.
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- Author Orson Welles
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There are laws against peddling dope, there can be laws against peddling race hate. But every man has a right to his own opinion as an American boasts, but race hate is not an opinion, it's a phobia. It isn't a viewpoint, race hate is a disease. In a people's world, the incurable racist has no rights. He must be deprived of influence in a people's government. He must be segregated, as he himself would segregate the colored and semitic peoples. As we now segregate the leprous and the insane.
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