Quotes with african-american

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  • Henry James One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • C. L. R. James One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Audre Lorde Oppression is as American as apple pie.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 114
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Bruce Catton Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Sinclair Lewis Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • Bill Owens Our American story, for generations, is of a people who seek to move forward. A people who look at a mountain and worry not about the tough climb ahead, but dream about the view from the summit.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Al Gore Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Bill Shuster Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Booth Tarkington Out of the north Atlantic a January storm came down in the night, sweeping the American coast with wind and snow and sleet upon a great oblique front from Nova Scotia to the Delaware capes.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Douglas Macarthur Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Particularly during the late 1960s, a large number of American skyjackers earnestly believed that Fidel Castro's Cuba was an egalitarian, post-racial utopia.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Florence King People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Assata Shakur People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they put me through. I miss African American culture, our speech, dance and cooking.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Bob Cousy People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.
    Bob Cousy
    American basketball player (1928 - )
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  • Carl E. Olson People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it.
    Carl E. Olson
    American author
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  • William Somerset Maugham Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • George F. Will Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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