"The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded."
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"Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people."
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"To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late."
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"I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li."
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"Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty."
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"At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas, both in film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature's monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans."
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"In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful."
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"Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America."
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"No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people."
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"There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America."
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"I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad."
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"I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America."
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"A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood."
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"Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers"
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"The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem."
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"I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear."
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"O America! Because you build for mankind I build for you."
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"Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader."
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"Good evening, America. I'm a woman, and welcome to The Late Late Show."
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"Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection."
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