“America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.” AmericaLawMillionsTenCongressThanksFortyCommandmentsTen Commandments Author:Anatole France
“If we have learned anything in the past ten years, it is that these lovely things about America were never lovely. We have been expansionist and aggressive and mean to other people from the beginning. And we've been aggressive and mean to people in this country, and we've allocated the wealth of this country in a very unjust way. We've never had justice in our courts for the poor people, for black people, for radicals. Now how can we boast that America is a very special place? It's not that special. It really isn't.” PeopleIfsWayYearsMeanHas BeensCountryAmericaPastBlackWealthJusticePoorSpecialTenCourtLovelyRadicalAggressiveBlack PeopleUnjustPoor PeopleBoastSpecial PlacesLovely Things Author:Howard Zinn
“The first life insurance societies where formed in England in the years between 1692 and 1720. In America, life insurance became available to the clergy through the Presbyterian Ministers Fund, founded in 1759 (still in existence), and the Episcopal Corporation, founded ten years later (subsequently merged).” YearsFirstsStillsAmericaExistenceTenEnglandAvailableCorporationsMinistersFundClergyPresbyterians Author:Andrew Tobias
“Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the shape of a bonnet, as it may venture to do always, and with the certainty of being right nine times in ten: but fashion will place it upon the head of every woman in America; and, were it literally a crown of thorns, she would smile contentedly beneath the imposition.” MayAmericaResultsOpinionFashionShapesTenNineCertaintyCrownsVenturePublic OpinionThornsEmbodimentImpositionBonnetsCrown Of Thorns Author:J. G. Holland
“Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.” PeopleMenLongCountryStatesAmericaBlackWhiteLandTenBlack PeopleWhite ManNorth America Author:Muhammad Ali