#america

It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#anxiety #anything #around #came #carrying

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#american way #child #fails #life #our

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?' ↗

— Ice Cube

#america #been #down #fair #foot

I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#arms #book #community #expecting #i

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#american actors #i #i think #intimidated #more

There are members of our body politic who tell us that the public interest is best served when government action is reduced to a minimum and especially when it is kept negative in character. But just now, the nation as a whole seems to be moving rather swiftly and decisively—as is the world as a whole—in the opposite direction. More and more, we Americans are initiating new forms of positive government action for the common good. Between these two tendencies the struggle becomes every day more open and more intense. And as we wage that conflict it is well to remember that the logic of the Constitution gives no backing to either of the two combatants, as against the other. We are left free, as any self-governing people must leave itself free, to determine by specific decisions what our economy shall be. It would be ludicrous to say that we are committed by the Constitution to the economic cooperations of socialism. But equally ludicrous are those appeals by which, in current debate, we are called upon to defend the practices of capitalism, of "free enterprise," so-called, as essential to the freedom of the American Way of Life. The American Way of Life is free because it is what we Americans freely choose—from time to time—that it shall be. ↗

— Alexander Meiklejohn

#capitalism #freedom #government #politics #socialism

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America. ↗

— Renee Fleming

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This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different. ↗

— Ernie Fletcher

#any #beings #derive #different #foundational

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#american music #appalachian #consciously #folk #i

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#about #afraid #amazing #america #american