#am

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#begins #bombing #fellow #fellow americans #five

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#counted #did #had #passive #today

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#america #everything #forget #let us #repudiation

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#could #country #declare #home #north

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#changed #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #commercial

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#background #came #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#african #african american #allowed #american #before

The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#america #american #could #effort #everything

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#coming #english #feel #hell #here

I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up. ↗

— Noel Redding

#audition #broken #came #eric #experience