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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."
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"I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went."
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"If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react."
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"When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today."
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"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."
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"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
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"The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts."
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"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."
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"Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today."
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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
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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."
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"I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me."
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"I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches."
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"But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them."
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"I feel that my whole life is a contribution."
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"Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business."
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"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."
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"Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent."
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"I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it."
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"I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known."
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"I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other."
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