"In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country."

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"In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country."

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"I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country."

Country

"Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss."

Delight

"You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X."

Advertising

"I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man."

Man

"In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport."

Chicago

"When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps."

God

"We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre."

History

"We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class."

Thought

"In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country."

America

"Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine."

Being

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"If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?""

Josiah Strong, American Clergyman

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"A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories."

Maynard James Keenan, American Musician

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"I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City ."

Spalding Gray, American Actor

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"The popular song is America's greatest ambassador."

Sammy Cahn, American Musician

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"Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties."

Pete Seeger, American Musician

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"I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes."

Nat King Cole, American Musician

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"Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out."

Roy Harper, English Musician

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"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging."

William Hurt, American Actor

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"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

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