"What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind."

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"This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus."

Josiah Strong, American Clergyman

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"I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America."

Newt Gingrich, American Politician

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"I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen."

Nat King Cole, American Musician

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"America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese."

David Riesman, American Sociologist

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"Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated."

Tom Chapin, American Musician

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"Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?"

William O. Douglas, American Judge

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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"I'm an American before any party preference."

Lynn Anderson, American Musician

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"Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial."

Eric Holder, American Public Servant

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"I'm not saying that there weren't other inherent problems with the score that couldn't have been overcome with a bit of remixing, but why did they ask me to do it, and why did Griffin ask me to do it this way, for a film that had nothing to do with American vernacular?"

Michael Nyman, British Composer

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"This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus."

"I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America."

"I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen."

"America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese."

"Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated."

"Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?"

"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."

"I'm an American before any party preference."

"Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial."

"I'm not saying that there weren't other inherent problems with the score that couldn't have been overcome with a bit of remixing, but why did they ask me to do it, and why did Griffin ask me to do it this way, for a film that had nothing to do with American vernacular?"

Explore more quotes by Eldridge Cleaver

"There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness."

"All the gods are dead except the god of war."

"The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books."

"History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood."

"I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare."

"In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all."

"You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem."

"Too much agreement kills a chat."

"Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due."

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