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“America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal. And we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words, within our borders and around the world. We are shaped by every culture. Drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept, E pluribus unum: Out of many, one.”

“To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America ... who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social interest, who does not recognize some duty besides those incident to her own blood relationship.”

Doe America Social Interest Blood Duty Concerned Incidents

Book:Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland

Source: Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland

“The commotions that have taken place in America, as far as they are yet known to me, offer nothing threatening. They are a proof that the people have liberty enough, and I could not wish them less than they have. If the happiness of the mass of the people can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase. 'Malo libertatem periculosam quam quietem servitutem.' Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.”

Source: Correspondence

“Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.”

People America Sports Comedy Blood Logic Twisted Bullfighting

Author:Elayne Boosler

“We have dedicated our lives, our blood, to the freedom and liberation of our people, and nothing, no force can stop us from achieving our goal. If it is necessary to destroy the United States of America, then let us destroy it with a smile on our faces.”

People Ifs States America Faces Force Goal United United States Our Lives Blood Achieve Activism Liberation Dedicated United States Of America

Author:Eldridge Cleaver

“The United States of America has helped underwrite the global security for more than six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms. The service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform has promoted peace and prosperity from Germany to Korea and enabled democracy to take hold in places like the Balkans.”

“When I was on The View, Barbara Walters was asking me about the blood and stuff, and I said, 'Well, you know, that's a staple of Japanese cinema.' And then she came back, 'But this is America.' And I go, 'I don't make movies for America. I make movies for planet Earth.'”

Knows Wells Said Earth America Stuff Views Blood Planets Asking Cinema Planet Earth Barbara Staples

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“America is the only country in the world that classifies as Negro any person who has one drop of African blood in his or her veins.”

World Persons Country America Blood Veins

Author:Edward Brooke

“I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young children in America.”

Children Country Care America Young Interest Results Blood Special Administration Special Interests Young Children Mercury Contamination I Do Care

Author:Jay Inslee

“When liberal celebs stammer out a litany of shopworn bleats about the administration's attempt to turn America into a theocratic prison state, people can't help but notice that these buskers and mummers seem unmoved by the horrors of actual prison states. (Saddam commissioned a copy of the Quran written in his own blood - but John Ashcroft is the real religious nut, don't you know.)”

People Knows Real States Helping Seems America Turns Religious Written Blood Horror Prison Administration Copies Nuts Saddam Quran Celebs

Author:James Lileks

“It took a child. It took a child with a blood transfusion not only to wake me up, but to wake America up, basically. I mean, I read about his plight in a doctor's office in New York in a magazine. I was so outraged about it that I contacted the family. We became friends. I helped them move to another place in Indiana. And we became constant friends.”

Mean Children America Moving Blood New York Office Doctors Constant Magazines Indiana Plight Outraged Blood Transfusion

Author:Elton John

“Paraguayans have no Italian blood and are half Guarani [Indian] blood. And the Chileans call themselves "the English of South America," which actually couldn't be further from the truth.”

America Half Blood South Indian Italian South America Chileans

Author:John Gimlette

“America has never had a very wide vocabulary for miscegenation. We say we like diversity, but we don't like the idea that our Hispanic neighbor is going to marry our daughter. America has nothing like the Spanish vocabulary for miscegenation. Mulatto, mestizo, Creole - these Spanish and French terms suggest, by their use, that miscegenation is a fact of life. America has only black and white. In eighteenth-century America, if you had any drop of African blood in you, you were black.”

Ifs Ideas Facts Use America Black Term White Blood Century Diversity Daughter Wide Neighbor Black And White Vocabulary Facts Of Life Hispanic Our Daughter Creole Miscegenation Mulattoes

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“The United States can hide behind a facade simply because it is sucking the blood of other people...The Third World people: Africa, Asia and Latin America.”

People World States America United Behinds United States Blood Thirds Latin Asia Latin America Third World Facade

Author:Huey Newton

“I just genuinely believe in the concept of redemption and renewal, so I was happy. When I get beyond my feelings, I had my own family and friends and so many women across America come to me and say their blood was boiling, asking me how this could happen.”

Believe Feelings Happens America My Own Blood Concepts Asking Redemption Family And Friends Renewal Boiling

Author:Paula Broadwell

“America's grand strategy did not come from nowhere. It followed from our deeper conception of ourselves, and our American identity. Who are we, Americans? What is our nation? We are not an ethnostate with identity rooted in shared blood. The option of a white man's republic ended at Appomattox.”

Men America Nations White Blood Identity Strategy Deeper Republic Conception Rooted White Man American Identity

Author:Daniel Fried

“America is not an ethnostate. We are not rooted in blood and soil.”

America Blood Soil Rooted

Author:Daniel Fried

“When you think of how much violence, how much blood... how much has been destroyed to create the great nations, America, Australia, Britain, Germany, France, Belgium - even India, Pakistan. Having destroyed so much to make them, we must have nuclear weapons to protect them - and climate change to hold up their way of life... a two-pronged annihilation project.”

“There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that. We're haunted by the genocide that is America, the decimation of so many native cultures. As a mix-blood European ancestry American, you're a nexus of all those violences, and yet there's a relative personal identity as well.”

Wells America Culture Violence Blood Identity Building Native Genocide Relative Ashes Ancestry Pun Wreckage Personal Identity Nexus

Author:Anne Waldman

“My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.”

States America Parent United United States Blood Our Family Family Love

Author:Vivien Leigh

“The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.”

Running School America Blood Rivers Filled Submit

Author:Billy Sunday

“If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood--to hate himself.”

Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro

“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”

“And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that we are here and willing to pour out our blood, our treasure, our tears. And that America is ready and if need be desirous of battle”

Ifs Knows Men World Needs America Winning Nations Blood Greatness Tears Willing Ready Battle Treasure Strife Readiness

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century