"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."
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"If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health."
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"We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property."
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"I live in racist America and I'm uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can't do much better than that."
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"The most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings."
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"We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody."
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"The conscience of America seems to be paralyzed... We seem to be insensible to the things that are now taking place on motion picture screens and on the news stands that are constantly stimulating our young people."
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"America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything 'noble and just,' and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history-was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle."
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"A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader."
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"Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land."
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"In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about."
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"I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either."
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"Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems."
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"I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare."
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"You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You can’t hate the land, your motherland, the place that you come from, and we can’t hate Africa without ending up hating ourselves. The Black man in the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central America, South America, and in the Caribbean—is the best example of how one can be made, skillfully, to hate himself that you can find anywhere on this earth."
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"We must never again let America be led into a fratricidal war like the last two world wars, for the sake of alien, minority interests."
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"In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel."
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"Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick."
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"Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady."
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"In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person's yard."
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