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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet
America

"I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future."

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Jackie Kennedy First Lady
America

"[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
America

"Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can make of things, and when I return home to America, I will devote what energies I have to repairing the damage."

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Muhammad Yunus Social Entrepreneur
America

"There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences."

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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
America

"America need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I've advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy. If you give me a tithe, it doesn't matter how much you make. If you've had a bumper crop, you don't owe me triple tithes. And if you've had no crops at all, you don't owe me no tithes. So there must be something inherently fair about it."

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Huey Newton Activist
America

"The United States can hide behind a facade simply because it is sucking the blood of other people...The Third World people: Africa, Asia and Latin America."

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David Bowie Musician, Actor
America

"I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part."

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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet
America

"America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see."

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William Wells Brown Writer, Abolitionist
America

"The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the world."

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Woody Guthrie Singer-Songwriter
America

"One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple, by the Relief Office, I saw my people - As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if God blessed America for me."

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George Lincoln Rockwell Political Activist
America

"We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people."

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