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“No, I’m not an American. I’m one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the … victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy. So, I’m not standing here speaking to you as an American, or a patriot, or a flag-saluter, or a flag-waver - no, not I. I’m speaking as a victim of this American system. And I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.”

People Dream Black Millions Democracy Standing Victim Hypocrisy Nightmare Black People Flags American Dream Patriot Americanism

Author:Malcolm X

“Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.”

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Book:The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt

“There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.”

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Book:The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century

Source: The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century

“Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.”

Pure Concepts Notion Idiotic Americanism

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic, expression of Americanism. Thus, the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus with God's help, it will continue to be.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955

“Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.”

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Book:Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

“This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.”

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Author:Al Capone

“Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism-the right to criticize, the right to hold unpopular beliefs, the right to protest, the right of independent thought.”

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Book:Declaration of conscience

Source: Declaration of conscience

“Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.”

Matter Color Skins Americanism

Author:Daniel Inouye

“McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.”

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Author:Joseph McCarthy

“When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism”

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Author:Sinclair Lewis

“I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.”

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Author:Warren G. Harding

“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.”

Country Politics Rooms Presidential Patriot United States Of America American Citizens Space Program Americanism

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.”

Teacher Lessons Demand Loyalty Americanism

Author:Bainbridge Colby

“Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.”

May War Common Failing Cold Angel Demon Phenomenon Cold War Americanism

Author:Ian Buruma

“Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.”

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Author:Dinesh D'Souza

“My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American sickness. I now loathe the United States and what it has done to Iraq and the rest of the helpless world.”

World States Done United United States Disease Iraq Sickness Throat Possessed Helpless Acid Fashionable Loathe Uncontrollable Americanism Anti-american Acid Reflux

Author:Margaret Drabble

“If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism.”

Ifs Would Be America Program Fascism Americanism Fascism In America

Author:Huey Long

“The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost nothing we understand better or react to more readily or with quicker intelligence. In ways that we do not easily or willingly define, the gangster speaks for us, expressing that part of the American psyche which rejects the qualities and the demands of modern life, which rejects Americanism itself.”

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Author:Robert Warshow

“I certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I've never tried that.”

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Author:Bernhard Schlink

“First, we should become informed about communism, about socialism, and about Americanism. What better way can one become informed than by first studying the inspired words of the prophets and using that as a foundation; against which to test all other material. This is in keeping with the Prophet Joseph Smith's motto, "When the Lord commands, do it."”

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Book:God, family, country: our three great loyalties

Source: God, family, country: our three great loyalties

“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“I am not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it. I am one of the 22 million black victims of the Democrats, and one of the 22 million black victims of the Republicans, and one of the 22 million black victims of Americanism... You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocracy... If you go to jail, so what? If you're black, you were born in jail. If you're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you're south.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“Anti-Americanism is as old as the Republic--a historical constant, which is only remotely related to specific American behavior. So what is new? Andrei Markovits has delivered the best answer yet, ranging across an astounding wealth of material from politics and culture. Uncouth Nation is a rare academic treat. Rigorous and analytical, the book is also a pleasure to read as it penetrates a critical issue of our time.”

Book Culture Nations Wealth Answers Pleasure Issues Materials Behavior Treats Constant Historical Critical Related Our Time Republic Academic Penetrate Americanism Anti-american Uncouth

Author:Josef Joffe

“Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging that the sins of America are the sins of mankind, and that our remedies are so often exceptional, then it only earns transitory applause—and a more lasting contempt that we ourselves do not believe in the values we profess.”

Source: The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern

“Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our Nation's national security interest. Guantanamo is used not only by al-Qaida, but also by other nations, governments, and individuals - people good and bad - as a symbol of America's abuse of Muslims, and it is fanning the flames of anti-Americanism around the world.”

“Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you've got a homegrown attack or you have a nuclear explosion in the air that is not a test somewhere. Those are still the biggest threats out there.”

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Author:Robert D. Kaplan

“There is one tradition in America I am proud to inherit. It is our first freedom and the truest expression of our Americanism: the ability to dissent without fear. It is our right to utter the words, 'I disagree.' We must feel at liberty to speak those words to our neighbors, our clergy, our educators, our news media, our lawmakers and, above all, to the one among us we elect - President.”

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Author:Natalie Merchant

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