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“It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance and magic. It's about the soul of America, really. What people brought to America; what found them when they came; and the things that lie sleeping beneath it all.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“In America, you are not required to offer food to the hungry or shelter the homeless. There is no ordinance forcing you to visit the lonely, or comfort the infirmed. No where in the Constitution does it say you have to provide clothing to the poor. In fact, one of the nicest things about living here in America, is that you really don't have to do anything for anybody. But when you do, you give meaning and provide soul to the concept of community...and develop a sense of purpose to something greater than one's self.”

Giving Doe Soul Self Facts America Purpose Community Poor Greater Comfort Offers Concepts Lonely Constitution Hungry Clothings Shelter Homeless Ordinances

Author:Pope Paul VI

“In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America; and there can be no greater proof of its utility and of its conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth.”

Source: Democracy in America: Book One

“I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.”

Ifs Soul Government America Minutes Conscience Code Corporations If I Could Immoral Shrinks

Author:Jerry Brown

“I hope for an America where neither fundamentalist nor humanist will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.”

People Way Looks Different Soul America Fairs Dirty Different Ways Description Humanist Good Will Fundamentalist Dirty Words

Author:Edward Kennedy

“Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousy, it is the sacrificial altar of health, it is the defiler of the soul, it is the avenue of lust and it is the curse of every town in America.”

Soul America Social Rooms Pride Balls Towns Dancing Lust Curse Avenues Altars Dissipation Instigators

Author:Thomas De Witt Talmage

“America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.”

Want Soul America Artist Hate United States My Soul

Author:Anais Nin

“The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon," And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved From wild America to Bosphor's waters, And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me, And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue, And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul, Sitting amid their ruins.”

Art Stills Soul America Speak Water Travel Sitting Tongue Kingdoms Painter Dust Ruins Recalls Sculpture Pilgrim Shrines Sandals

Book:Sacred Poems

Source: Sacred Poems

“Everywhere - all over Africa and South America - you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul. This is the prison this planet is being turned into.”

People Want Soul America Certain Planets Logic Prison South Suburbs South America Immaculate Optimum

Author:J. G. Ballard