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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
America

"The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance."

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Chris Rock Comedian, Actor, Writer
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"The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people."

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John Lewis Politician
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"I think Donald Trump is dividing the American people. He is not good for America. It's not good for our standing in the rest of the world. To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it's just ... it's just wrong."

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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
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"Military cemeteries around the world are packed with brainwashed dead soldiers who were convinced God was on their side. America prays for God to destroy our enemies. Our enemies pray for God to destroy us. Somebody's gonna be disappointed! Somebody's wasting their time! Could it be.. everyone?"

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Peter Lewis Allen Singer-songwriter
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"Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s."

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Barbara Jordan Politician, Lawyer
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"Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny."

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Hunter S. Thompson Journalist, Author
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"The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear."

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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
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"Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?"

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"There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people."

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Lewis Black Comedian, Actor, Author
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"When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a source that would never run out."

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Muhammad Ali Boxer, Activist
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"If the culprits are Muslim, they have twisted the teachings of Islam. Whoever performed, or is behind, the terrorist attacks in the United States of America does not represent Islam. God is not behind assassins."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go."

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