Usa Quotes

American diversity rarely applies to money and success.

~ Suzanne Munshower

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

~ Herbert Hoover

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.

~ Herb Ritts

Here's what we're not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you understand them truly now, they still are. You are not taught - and it is a disgrace that you aren't - that these men and women were radicals for liberty; that they had a vision of equality that was a slap in the face of what the rest of their world understood to be the unchanging, God-given order of nations; and that they were willing to die to make that desperate vision into a reality for people like us, whom they would never live to see.

~ Naomi Wolf

...the freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life.

~ Kevin Alan Lee

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

~ Karl Marx

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

~ Walter Cronkite

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

~ George Bernard Shaw

You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine and applicable, but they understate the task and allow the citizens of this country to pretend that there is real distance between their own attitudes and those of the ones appointed to protect them. The truth is that the police reflect America in all of its will and fear, and whatever we might make of this country’s criminal justice policy, it cannot be said that it was imposed by a repressive minority. The abuses that have followed from these policies—the sprawling carceral state, the random detention of black people, the torture of suspects—are the product of democratic will. And so to challenge the police is to challenge the American people who send them into the ghettos armed with the same self-generated fears that compelled the people who think they are white to flee the cities and into the Dream. The problem with the police is not that they are fascist pigs but that our country is ruled by majoritarian pigs.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...

~ David Mazzucchelli

History is the archaeology of the present and future.

~ Patrick Mendis

China seems to have skillfully adapted a Monroe Doctrine, or “Ménluó” (a transliteration of the word “Monroe”) Doctrine, in America’s backyard.

~ Patrick Mendis

As Pacific Ocean nations, competition and cooperation between the two nations will create a new atmosphere—leading to the Birth of a ‘Pacific’ New World Order—that is more engaging and less confrontational; this can be characterized by the presence of force without war.

~ Patrick Mendis

Call me a proud American, if you want, but I truly believe that no other nation on Earth possesses the capabilities to put on a more powerful display of underwater mermaid patriotism.

~ Dave Barry

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

But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful. The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guarantied by the supreme law of the land are involved.

~ John Marshall Harlan

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

During these years in the small-talk wilderness, I also wondered why Americans valued friendliness with commerce so much. Was handing over cash the sacred rite of American capitalism—and of American life? On a day that I don’t spend money in America, I feel oddly depressed. It’s my main form of social interaction—as it is for millions of Americans who live alone or away from their families.

~ Karan Mahajan

We are in the energy dictatorship that calls itself the United States of America.

~ Steven Magee

America seemed like a place for honest people. The United States of America. The land of the free and the home of the brave. The most righteous, politically correct and awesomest country in the world. It even says in god we trust on the dollar bills. God bless America.

~ Carlito Sofer

I am groping about through this American forest of prejudice and proscription, determined to find some form of civilization where all men will be accepted for what they are worth.

~ P.b.s. Pinchback

With all the fucked up things going on in the world, just the fact that we can wake up in the morning is kind of a miracle.

~ John Zorn

What a beautiful country this must have been once, when you could hop in a coupe and buy a bag of burgers and drive, drive, drive, stopping to swim in a river or sleep in a grove of trees without worrying about intaking mutagens or having the militia arrest you and send you to the Everglades for eternity.

~ George Saunders

It’s best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card which you look at in a weak moment. Like that, you imagine it’s always there waiting for you, unchanged, unspoiled, a big patriotic open space with cows and sheep and tenderhearted men ready to bugger everything in sight, man, woman or beast. It doesn’t exist, America. It’s a name you give to an abstract idea…

~ Henry Miller

There is a story I always tell my students...when I came for the 1st time to the US. I didn’t speak English (Only Spanish) & I saw on every door the word “exit” which in Spanish means Success = Exito. And then I said :”No wonder Americans are winners ,every door they open leads to success

~ Pablo

I wouldn’t be caught dead sacrificing myself for this country.

~ Sol Luckman

In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they were naked, discovered that the Sin existed, discovered they owed allegiance to a King and Kingdom from another world and a God from another sky, and that this God had invented the guilty and the dress, and had sent to be burnt alive who worships the Sun the Moon the Earth and the Rain that wets it.

~ Eduardo Galeano

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~ Norman Mailer

Both David Koresh and Timothy McVeigh fell in the fight for freedom, the right of the Americans to be left alone.

~ Eduard Limonov

The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years.

~ Walter A. Mcdougall

The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.

~ Norman Podhoretz

This whole country's stolen.

~ Jeffrey Eugenides

We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.