America Quotes - Page 42

We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential.

America is best described by one word, freedom.

Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is

What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture?

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

The problem in America isn't so much what people don't know; the problem is what people think they know that just ain't so.

We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more security... The America being designed right now won't resemble the America we've been defending... The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls.

In America we have across the country, the entire world.

Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

I love what I do, and for me, acting can be anything. It could be in America. It could be in India. It could be in England. It could be anything. As long as it's an interesting part and an interesting opportunity, I would love to do it.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

We don't have a lot of churches in America; we have a lot of really nice brick buildings on finely manicured lawns! Just because someone says they are of the Church or they are Christian, doesn't make it so.

There's the new America for you. Bring them in by the millions. Bring in 10 million more from Africa. Bring them in with AIDS. Show how multicultural you are. They can't reason, but bring them in with a machete in their head. Go ahead. Bring them in with machetes in their mind.

Social media itself is not protest. To tweet is not to protest physically. To do a Facebook post, and though it's critical and crucial, is not to show up and embody the anger you feel, to embody the righteous outrage you feel, to embody the concern you feel. This is about putting feet to pavement and to register in the consciousness of America that this is something that's problematic.

For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.

You can see examples of this, such as where [George W.] Bush lied to the public, and as a result 72 percent of America was in favor of the Iraqi invasion. Yet now the truth has presented itself and they are trying to save face by appealing to the public's national-istic persona, talking about winning and honor and everything as a reason to continue that illegal immoral occupation.

This dark diction has become America's addiction.

People see America through particular lenses, either their profession, their race or their gender. So the party that speaks to our racial perceptions and offers solutions to the racial difficulties which we face is the party that's going to be rewarded with our votes.

Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick.

You've got to invite Native Americans to the table, and Asians, and Chicanos. You cannot keep us in the back room anymore and give us notations on paper saying this is what you deserve. You have to invite us to the table because America is ours, too.