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“On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.”

Years Firsts Country Facts Nations Fronts Pages Native Native American Tribes Sovereignty Interfaces Settlers New Relationship

Author:Ken Salazar

“With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding customer service representatives. However, even if the level of customer service is exceptional, the extent to which poorly-understood accents trump quality of service speaks to English-speaking customers' growing intolerance of non-native speech, more so than in other countries.”

“They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. But if you ask a Native American, that number is more like 300 million.”

Ifs Country Asks Numbers Millions Native Immigrants Illegal Native American Illegal Immigrants

Author:David Letterman

“I want the seals of power and place, the ensigns of command, charged by the people's unbought grace, to rule my native land. Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask but from my country's will, by day, by night, to ply the task her cup of bliss to fill.”

People Want Country Night Asks Grace Land Tasks Command Cups Bliss Native Crowns Seals Native Land Plies

Author:John Quincy Adams

“Love--what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear, A seventh heaven in a glance, a whirlwind in a sigh, The lightning in a touch, a millennium in a moment, What concentrated joy or woe in blest or blighted love! For it is that native poetry springing up indigenous to Mind, The heart's own-country music thrilling all its chords, The story without an end that angels throng to hear, The word, the king of words, carved on Jehovah's heart!”

Source: Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated

“The air of one's native country is the most healthy air.”

Country Air Healthy Native Native Country

Author:Anton Chekhov

“The heroes in paganism correspond exactly to the saints in popery, and holy dervises in MAHOMETANISM. The place of, HERCULES, THESEUS, HECTOR, ROMULUS, is now supplied by DOMINIC, FRANCIS, ANTHONY, and BENEDICT. Instead of the destruction of monsters, the subduing of tyrants, the defence of our native country; whippings and fastings, cowardice and humility, abject submission and slavish obedience, are become the means of obtaining celestial honours among mankind.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood - what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower of slanting rain.”

Ifs Want Country Sides Failing Land Understood Rain Native Showers Native Land

Book:Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy

Source: Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy

“One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.”

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love.”

Love Should Children Country Universe Cities Creatures Reasoning Native Other Countries Our Love Child Of God Totality

Book:The Simone Weil Reader

Source: The Simone Weil Reader