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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
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America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage.
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America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.
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America is an outstandingly dangerous place. Consider this: every year in New Hampshire a dozen or more people are killed crashing their cars into moose. Now correct me if I am wrong, but this is not something that is likely to happen to you on the way home from Sainsbury's.
Im a Stranger Here Myself (US) / Notes From a Big Country (UK) (1998) -
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.
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America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
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America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.
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America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.
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America must not be allowed to pick out the eyes of the British Empire.
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America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.
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America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
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Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
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Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books.
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