Us Quotes

We all just need to be real. That is what will save us.

~ A.d. Posey

And the geography of the thing--the geography of them--was completely and hopelessly wrong.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples - while judging ourselves by our best intentions. And this has strained our bonds of understanding and common purpose.But Americans, I think, have a great advantage. To renew our unity, we only need to remember our values. We have never been held together by blood or background. We are bound by things of the spirit – by shared commitments to common ideals.

~ George W. Bush

We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.

~ Craig Groeschel

I’ll tell you the difference between our countries. Americans think life is serious but not hopeless, the English that life is hopeless but not serious.

~ Amanda Craig

It's more like the anger what keep us alive, if yoh are Happy… you are fucking open to dead.

~ Deyth Banger

Why is it deemed justifiable and appropriate for cops/policeofficers to kill other cops (friendly–fire) and citizens?Why do cops kill?Are they not taught to maim or slow down someone runningor reaching for a weapon?If not, why not?Why do cops kill first and ask questions last?Why are police officers being military trained?What can we as citizens, taxpayers, and voters do to stop thesekillings and beatings of unarmed people?Why do we let this continue?How many more must die or get beat up before we realizesomething is wrong and needs to be changed?Will you, a friend, or a family member have to be killed or beatenby a cop before we realize that things have to change?Who's here to protect us from the cops when they decide to useexcessive force, shoot multiple shells, and/or murder us?

~ Obiora Embry

After spending all of his resources to create all of us, not just one or two people, but in millions and billions and yet, God cannot find a man who will stand for him

~ Sunday Adelaja

In Confucian thought, individuals practice moral virtue both by restraining themselves and pursuing their own interests. This is a dual push-and-pull process. In today’s China, the latter is taken care of by capitalism and commerce. The former, however, needs to be taken care of by the rule of law. Otherwise, the system of governance is corrupted by unrestrained individual desires and selective enforcement of ‘virtue’ or law.

~ Patrick Mendis

Paul Chehade is dedicated to serves the unfortunate, regardless of a person's religion, race, ethnicity, or gender, as a demonstration of God's unconditional love for all people, helping communities worldwide.Ethical junction making choices easy.

~ Paul Chehade

31. The human body seems indestructible when we are young. However, it is incredibly fragile and must be care for if it is to serve us for a lifetime. Too often, the abuse it takes during early years (from drugs, improper nutrition, sporting injuries, etc.) becomes painful handicaps during later years.

~ James C. Dobson

Baby human died, baby cat died yesterday... dead is part of our life beyond and above us!

~ Deyth Banger

In this world it is not possible that everyone will follow your steps. You can't change some one and some one will not change their lifestyle because of you.

~ Nutan Bajracharya

Color shows us love.AndLove gives us color.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

My father once told me that American democracy is a people’s democracy at heart, and that it therefore can be as great as the American people, or as fallible. It depends on all of us. But our system is more fragile than we know. To sustain it, we must always cherish the ideals on which it was founded, remain vigilant against the dark forces that threaten it, and actively engage in the process of making it work.

~ George Takei

Ours was the first nation to be founded on the idea that all are created equal and all deserve equal treatment under the law. Despite our missteps and shortcomings, these ideals still inspire hope among the oppressed and give us pride in being Americans.

~ Jimmy Carter

At times, we need to let our choices die, for us to get a better direction in life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

But we must understand that emotions are unreliable and at times, tyrannical. They should never be permitted to dominate us.

~ James C. Dobson

America acknowledged the greatness of Confucius through a trio of ancient lawgivers—Moses flanked by Confucius to his right and Solon on his left—on the monument to “Justice, the Guardian of Liberty” displayed on the eastern pediment of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.

~ Patrick Mendis

Dumbfounded, I stood before the court, trying to figure out if there was a state of being between “guilty” and “innocent.” Why were those my only alternatives? I thought. Why couldn’t I be “neither” or “both”? After a long pause, I finally faced the bench and said, “Your Honor, I plead human.

~ Paul Beatty

Each and every one of us was created to carry out justice, judgment, truth and equity on the earth. It could be in different spheres of life, in various professions or in diverse gifting

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. That’s what extreme diversity does to us.

~ James C. Dobson

Is it a good idea or not?? Were we build for that or not??We know to much so let's remove us??

~ Deyth Banger

Ladies and gentlemen, let us hear the demand of life and adhere to it. It would do us good

~ Sunday Adelaja

When God speaks about equity, that choice of word, makes us understand that God is not referring to the leaders of the land or the elite this time around. He is actually talking about how ordinary citizens of the land relate to each other in fairness and impartiality

~ Sunday Adelaja

Americans consider the United States an exceptional nation, so do the Chinese people think of their Middle Kingdom.

~ Patrick Mendis

A convergence exists in the search for human excellence on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.

~ Patrick Mendis

There are seemingly parallel origins of Nature’s God in America and China’s Mandate of Heaven. These twin concepts created socio-political forces for public good and orderly governance, and a unique cultural ethos (related to the Creator of the Universe in America and the Son of Heaven in China) is deeply rooted in both societies. Each concept is physically yet stealthily manifested in the architectural designs of the two capital cities, Beijing and Washington.

~ Patrick Mendis

We do not admire their president.We know why the White House is white.We do not find their children irresistible,We do not agree they should inherit the earth.

~ Alice Walker

Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.

~ Barack Obama

The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.

~ George Washington

To be black in America is a wild and endless assault on the senses. You can spend every day fighting off your spiritual and intellectual extinction.

~ Carvell Wallace

We want to remember that America is at its best when it’s struggling to live up to its stated ideals.

~ Lonnie Bunch

[I am] someone who represents a very complex country which insists on being simple-minded. And simplicity, it occurs to me, it has occurred to me more than once, in my somewhat stormy life, simplicity is taken to be a great American virtue, along with sincerity. And the result of this is, if you are simple-minded enough, you can become—I didn’t want to go that far [laughs]. And as long as you’re sincere in what you say, you haven’t got to know what you’re talking about. These are the American virtues—two of them anyway. One of the results of this is that immaturity is taken to be a virtue too.

~ James Baldwin

If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was supposed to keep hold of his land, it'd still be his. If the white man wasn't destined to take this new world, he wouldn't own it now.Here was the true Great Spirit, the divine thread connecting all human endeavor--if you can keep it, it is yours. Your property, slave or continent. The American imperative.

~ Colson Whitehead

The other patrollers were boys and men of bad character; the work attracted a type. In another country they would have been criminals, but this was America.

~ Colson Whitehead

His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in this country, so impressed with and loving of its opportunities, but then why, sometimes, did Americans fall short of their best selves?

~ Dave Eggers

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Live in a way that would not leave us regretting after so many years on earth.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The smiles of ancient soulsThat bless this,Our space to live and learnAnd urge us on to shine again…

~ Scott Hastie