148 Quotes About United-states-of-america

He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called the cops he would kill every single one of them and I knew that he had the potential and the means to do it

Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.

The combined effects of growing inequality, a faltering education system, demographic headwinds, and the strong likelihood of a fiscal correction imply that the real median disposable income will grow much more slowly in the future than in the past.

A lot is said by the fact that you are unlikely to listen to an entire album by an African American rapper without coming across the word ‘police’.

I remained abroad ten months, which was much longer than I had anticipated. During all that time, I never saw the slightest symptom of prejudice against color. Indeed, I entirely forgot it, till the time came for us to return to America.... We had a tedious winter passage, and from the distance spectres seemed to rise up on the shores of the United States. It is a sad feeling to be afraid of one's native country.

...the freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life.

The birthplace of anarchy is the cemetery of freedom.

A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn’t open to anywhere good.

Democracy doesn't mean spreading terror.