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“There's some homophobia within black community, but there's some strong homophobia throughout the whole of American society as well, particularly throughout the South to a degree, whether white or black. And since many of us migrated from the South, that could be a strong connection along those lines.”

Wells Whole Strong Black Community Lines White Degrees Connections South Homophobia American Society Black Community Strong Connection

Author:Otis Moss III

“The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government.”

People War Real Government Form Peace Rights Car Bills Flags Anti War Antiwar Fabric Forms Of Government Bill Of Rights American Society

Author:John Adams

“The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony.”

Media Mass Organization Monopoly Phony American Society Mass Media Misled Electorate

Book:The Community of Scholars, 1962

Source: The Community of Scholars, 1962

“I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that but I know that's just American society.”

Thinking Knows Records Coaches Counting American Society

Author:Dean Smith

“American society has tried so hard and so ably to defend the practice and theory of production for profit and not primarily for use that now it has succeeded in making its jobs and products profitable and useless.”

Hard Use Jobs Practice Products Theory Profit Productions Useless Profitable American Society

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective safety net in that country means that too many needy citizens fall by the wayside. That is not the path that Australia will tread. Nor do we want the burdens of nanny state paternalism that now weigh down many economies in Europe.”

Want Mean Long Country States Fall Views Economy Path Citizens Europe Safety Burden Absence Admire Australia Needy American Society Safety Net Nannies Paternalism

Author:John Howard

“To all organic conceptions of life Americans oppose a mechanistic conception. In a society which has 'started from scratch', everything has the characteristic of being fabricated. In American society appearances are masks, not faces. At the same time, proponents of the American way of life are hostile to personality.”

Way Faces Personality Appearance Characteristics Mask Conception Hostile Scratches American Society American Way Of Life

Author:Julius Evola

“Let's face it: The Jewish community is the most active political community in American society.”

Faces Political Community Active American Society Jewish Community

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.”

States Individual Liberty Constant Defense American Society Individual Liberty Encroachment

Author:Paul Singer

“In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the civil rights movement has been delusion.”

Long Has Beens War Ends Dark Rights Movement Aspect Civil Rights Civil War Delusion Chapters Civil Rights Movement Demographics American Society

Book:Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Source: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

“I believe it is essential to have English as the official language of our National Government, for the English language is the tie that binds the millions of immigrants who come to America from divergent backgrounds. We should, and do, encourage immigrants to maintain and share their traditions, customs and religions, but the use of English is essential for immigrants and their children to participate fully in American society and achieve the American dream.”

“Interesting thing that is happening in American society is that people are starting to talk about money. I don't know how you feel about this, but for a long time, nobody was talking about money. It was a secret. And it's kind of very interesting because we do lots of stuff to portray to people about how much money we have, the clothes we wear and the cars we have and the house - they all kind of depict to other people, signal how much money we make, but we don't talk about it specifically.”

“To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.”

Important Use Values Decision Position Cost Technique Resistance Decision Making Aggression American Society

Book:American Power and the New Mandarins

Source: American Power and the New Mandarins

“On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.”

Country Levels Bases Cynical Immorality American Society Rigged

Author:John Steinbeck

“American society in recent years has been imitating behavior patterns that have produced negative - and sometimes catastrophic - consequences in many other countries around the world.”

World Years Has Beens Country Sometimes Behavior Consequence Negative Patterns Around The World Other Countries American Society Imitating Behavior Patterns

Author:Thomas Sowell

“We also have a piece about the Mayflower, but it's just a very different, very gritty, very character-driven version of why those people were on that boat and what the experience was like for them, emotionally, physically and spiritually, and also the Native Americans and what the state of Native American society was at that time.”

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Author:John Landgraf

“The shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been presenting the message we believe in? Might there be a more grace-filled way?”

Way Believe Self Might Christian Opportunity Grace Messages Reflection Filled Criticize Self Reflection Presenting Admiring American Society

Author:Philip Yancey

“I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.”

“Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.”

Years Language Millions Cost Benefits Dollars Immigrants Multiple Discouraging Printing Integrating Ballots American Society

Author:Ernest Istook

“Thanks to Barack Obama, America is for the first time aligning its values with those of 'the majority of the world's population.' If you think the world's population has had better values than America, that is has made societies that are more open, free, and tolerant than American society, and that is has fought for others' liberty more than America has, you should be delighted.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Firsts Made America Values Liberty First Time Majority Population Thanks Barack Delighted American Society

Author:Dennis Prager

“Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women, moving women into the workplace; our feelings about our role in the world. All of that comes in a very direct way out of World War II.”

World Way War Feelings Moving Race Roles Empowerment Direct Gender War Of The Worlds Affected World War Ii World War I Workplace American Society

Author:Rick Atkinson

“American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics.”

Facts Seems Political Left Answers Groups Identity Organization Tendencies League American Society Bowling Identity Politics

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.”

Self Blind Satisfied Racist Worn American Society

Author:Randall Robinson

“You try to steer a course in American society that's not self-destructive. But America is a country that inflicts injury. It does not like to see anything that comes in response, and accuses one of anger as if it were an unnatural response.”

Ifs Trying Doe Self Country America Courses Response Injury Destructive Unnatural Steers American Society Self Destructive

Author:Randall Robinson

“Everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified.”

Half Behaviour Other Half American Society Americanism

Author:Adolf Hitler

“I think Islam, for me, helped me see how similar we all are. If my views are not traditional it's because of being raised in American society. Things that are taboo in an Islamic society are magnified in this society: drinking, extramarital affairs, all kinds of stuff like that. I have to apply the human aspect of all our culture dictates . . .”

Ifs Thinking Humans Kind Culture Stuff Views Aspect Drinking Raised Islam Affair Traditional All Kinds Islamic Taboo This Society American Society Islamic Society

Author:Chali 2na

“Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and reconciliation and the legacy of slavery is that it was such a dominant part of our history.”

Needs Reason Slavery Legacy Reason Why Reaching Dominant Reconciliation American Society

Author:Bryan Stevenson

“Hip-hop is contributing to American society's misogyny and racism, hyper-sexuality anti-Black representations. Hip-Hop isn't setting the standard for misogyny. No one reduces the presidency to misogyny, although we've had misogynistic presidents. No one reduces our government to being solely homophobic, although we have a government with a don't ask, don't tell policy for gays and lesbians in the military.”

“The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society, and also it's a place where the novel of development, the novel of consciousness, has gone.”

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Author:Marco Roth

“These weren't college kids on acid. They were preachers, and bankers, and farmers, and the salt of American society subscribing to ideas that now seem so wild to us. These people had the most radical visions of what the future could be. And this was happening in an era we don't typically associate with sexual experimentation, or communism, or things like that.”

People Ideas Seems Kids Vision College Happenings Radical Communism Eras Farmers Salt Preacher Associates Bankers Acid Experimentation American Society

Author:Christine Jennings

“I worry that I may have overstated the impact of Civil War on the utopians. By the time the Civil War comes, most of the communities were quite separated from the wider American society. Their rhetoric is still about transforming the world, but they're not having that much traffic with their neighbors.”

World May Stills War Community Worry Impact Neighbor Civil War Rhetoric Traffic Transforming American Society Transforming The World

Author:Christine Jennings

“It is clear to me that the racism was on the other foot, that really, society in Europe was much more racist - vis-à-vis Arabs at least and black Africans - than American society.”

Black Clear Feet Racism Europe Racist American Society

Author:Michael Scheuer

“Whether or not you liked George W. Bush, there was no doubt about what position he was going to take, and that's what endeared him to a significant segment of American society.”

Doubt Position Significant No Doubt American Society

Author:Frank Luntz

“I think the structures of exclusion are more systematically built up in American society, for example, so that young girls interested in science eventually lose their confidence over time. The structures of exclusion work against them. We have other structures of exclusion in India, but not around modern scientific knowledge.”

Thinking Young Girl Loses Modern Example Built India Structure Exclusion American Society Scientific Knowledge

Author:Vandana Shiva

“Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous. Now it's too complex, it's a mix. Different cultures in collision. I think it starts to be necessary to have a government institution to deal with cultural affairs.”

“While President Barack Obama has, in one sense, tipped his hand by saying that he wants judges with "empathy" for certain groups, he has in a more fundamental sense concealed the real goal - getting judges who will ratify an ever-expanding scope of the power of the federal government and an ever-declining restraint by the Constitution of the United States. This is consistent with everything else that Obama has done in office and is consistent with his decades-long track record of alliances with people who reject the fundamentals of American society.”

“For us going forward, it's to not reverse the dynamism of American society and the diversity. It's to pay attention to the people who are being ruined by it, and so this doesn't happen again.”

People Happens Pay Attention Diversity Pay Attention Reverse Ruined American Society Dynamism

Author:David Brooks

“The history of man so far is nothing to brag about, from the standpoint of our ideas - and what I mean is, that in comparison with most other societies, our present-day American society has achieved things which are remarkable: material wealth, greater than for any other nation; a relative freedom from oppression; a relative mobility; a spreading of art, of music, of thought, which is also rather unique.”

Men Mean Art Ideas Nations Wealth Greater Materials Unique Oppression Remarkable Comparison Relative Standpoint Present Day Brag American Society Mobility Material Wealth

Author:Erich Fromm

“The Russians have had and continue to have an active program to undermine American society.”

Program Active American Society

Author:Van Jones

“American society has gone completely into denial.”

Gone Denial American Society

Author:Jerry Garcia

“You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.”

American Society Katrina

Author:Desmond Tutu

“American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.”

Long Whole Cities Achieve Despair Tolerate American Society Inner City

Author:Jack Kemp

“I was born in '58, so the riot in Detroit in 1967 was a memorable introduction to the issue of race and how race made a difference in American society. And then the next year, of course, Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. And the Detroit Tigers winning the World Series. All of that made a huge impression on my growing mind.”

“I think one can live in American society with a certain cultural heritage, whether it's an African heritage or other, European,what have you, and still absorb a great deal of this culture. There is always cultural assimilation.”

Thinking Stills Certain Culture Deals Heritage Assimilation American Society Cultural Heritage

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Considering how pervasive interracial marriage is, certainly in American society, it is rare we get to see it depicted on film.”

Film Considering American Society Interracial Marriage

Author:David Oyelowo

“There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing. Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.”

Real Political Wonderful Becoming Males Violent Grants Hostility Emerging Becoming More American Society Incomprehension Been Real

Author:Adrienne Rich

“After all, the American society has been also based on the premise of expanding education very early. That's been [one] of the main sources of success of the Americans. And there is something that the world can learn from it and also be assisted by the United States along with Europe and the rest of the world. I really hope that this is an issue that engages the American public.”

World Has Beens States United United States Issues Source Europe Expanding Premises American Society

Author:Amartya Sen

“The rise of what's called Islamic fundamentalism is to a significant extent a result of the collapse of secular nationalist alternatives which were either discredited internally or destroyed, leaving few other options. Something like that may be true of American society.”

May Results Leaving Significant Destroyed Being True Alternatives Islamic Collapse Secular Fundamentalism American Society Islamic Fundamentalism

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Cumulatively, American society is sliding toward a new form of 'authoritarian democracy'. Elections continue, free speech is generally protected, institutions operate in accordance with the Constitution, but the reality of state - society relations is dramatically altered by the counter-terrorist claims of emergency rule and the right of exception.”

States Reality Form Democracy Speech Constitution Claims Relation Election Institutions Terrorist Exception Protected Free Speech Emergencies Altered American Society

Author:Richard A. Falk

“As a militant feminist, I believe in complete equality with men: intellectual, professional, economic, social and sexual; they're all equally essential, and they're all equally lacking in American society today.”

Men Believe I Believe Social Economic Essentials Intellectual Feminist I Believe In Lacking Militant American Society

Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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