Quotes on America

Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick.

The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

We really are All One....this is the very philosophy that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for fifteen years.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison.

See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you've got the money!

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, and that is the blues.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

As America has grown less economically equal, a citizen's ability to move upward has fallen behind that of citizens in other Western democracies. We are no longer the country where anyone can become anything.

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

It's America's classical music ... this becomes our tradition ... the bottom line of any country in the world is what did we contribute to the world? ... we contributed Louis Armstrong

It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.

It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.

The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.

Israel has no better friend than America. And America has no better friend than Israel. We stand together to defend democracy. We stand together to advance peace. We stand together to fight terrorism.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.

Black Power can be clearly_x000D_ defined for those who do not_x000D_ attach the fears of white America_x000D_ to their questions about it.