“I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration - joy and pain - sit side by side.” WorldPainAmericaMovingJoySidesPlanetsCelebrationCatastrophePlantationsJoy And Pain Book:Brother West Source: Brother West
“A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.” IfsRealCountryAmericaJoyFreedomLibertyReal Joy Book:The Writings of Will Rogers Source: The Writings of Will Rogers
“Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.” YearsAmericaJoyBlackWhitePromiseJazzReservesSeventiesTemptedJazz MusicLilies Author:John Clellon Holmes
“I recalled when I worked in the woods and the bars of Madras, Oregon. That short-haired joy and roughness America your stupidity. I could almost love you again.” AmericaJoyLove YouWoodsStupidityBarsYou AgainOregonRoughnessYour StupidMadrasAlmost Love Book:No nature: new and selected poems Source: No nature: new and selected poems
“Of the six men who have done most to make America the wonder and the joy she is to all of us, not one could be the citizen of a government so constituted; for Washington and Franklin and Jefferson, certainly the three mightiest leaders in our early history, were heretics in their day, Deists, as men called them; and Garrison and Lincoln and Sumner, certainly the three mightiest in these later times, would all be disfranchised by the proposed amendment. Lincoln could not have taken the oath of office had such a clause been in the Constitution.” MenDoneGovernmentAmericaJoyThreeLeaderWonderTakenAtheismCitizensOfficeSixConstitutionPositive AtheismAmendmentsOathFranklinHereticX MenClausesDeistOath Of Office Author:John Chadwick
“While alcohol ... continues to wreak havoc in America, supported by a $6 billion-a-year alcohol industry advertising campaign extolling the joy of inebriation, the far less harmful drug of marijuana remains illegal and continues to ruin people's lives - only if they are caught possessing and convicted of that crime.” PeopleIfsYearsAmericaJoyCrimeIndustryDrugRemainsCaughtAlcoholBillionsCampaignsAdvertisingRuinsIllegalMarijuanaPossessingHavocInebriation Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soulless army of human prey.” IfsHumansAmericaJoyIndividualNationsWealthPoorUnited StatesGoneCrimeArmyHomelessPreyFilthSoullessSqualor Author:Emma Goldman