Quotes with african-americans

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  • Ben Bernanke Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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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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  • Beau Bridges Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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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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  • Margaret Mead People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Ben Shapiro President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It's an odd and unsettling fact of American life that so many Americans seem to think that such expressions of frustration should substitute for actual competence.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Carl Levin Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Beau Bridges Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Bobby McFerrin Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Blair Underwood Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Anita Diamant Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Brigham Young Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.
    Race Journal of Discourses, vol. 10, p. 110.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bill Frist Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Albert Schweitzer The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Bill Frist The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Bob Corker The attack on Americans in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 is a stark reminder that our nation must remain vigilant in protecting our citizens from the threat of Al-Qaeda and similar extremist terrorist entities around the world.
    Bob Corker
    American businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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