“In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us. In us the contempt for the heroic is only an extension of the perversion of the democratic principle that denies greatness and wants everyone to feel comfortable in his skin without having to suffer unpleasant comparisons. Students have not the slightest notion of what an achievement it is to free oneself from public guidance and find resources for guidance within oneself.” WantFeelsAmericaSufferingPrinciplesStudentsGreatnessAchievementComfortableResourcesSkinsDemocraticNotionOneselfAvailableDenyGuidanceComparisonContemptHeroicExtensionsBourgeoisiePerversion Book:Closing of the American Mind Source: Closing of the American Mind
“I think the reality is Michael Jackson's humanity is so deep, the implications and inferences of his art so monumentally and magnificently global, that nothing American television could do to besmirch his character could ever, if you will, deny the legitimate genius that he represents and America has responded, as indeed has the globe.” IfsThinkingArtCharacterRealityAmericaHumanityTelevisionGeniusDenyGlobesImplicationsInferenceAmerican Television Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“And how can we ever again succeed in educating children to become moral men and women if, in America's public schools, we consciously deny them all religious instruction, and deny them access to that primary source of morality, God's own word. The Bible is the one book from which they are expressly not allowed to be taught.” IfsMenChildrenBookSchoolAmericaReligionReligiousMoralTaughtSourceMoralitySucceedMen And WomenDenyAccessPrimariesInstructionPublic SchoolPrimary SourceEducating Children Author:Pat Buchanan
“Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, 'His color is not mine,' or 'His beliefs are strange and different,' in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.” DifferentMomentsAmericaRememberBeliefNationsJusticeMinesStrangeColorCitizensFellowsDenyThat MomentBetray Author:Lyndon B. Johnson