#american

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people... ↗

— T. Rafael Cimino

#greed #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #political-commentary #political-philosophy

You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat.Try fighting with your head for a change . . .it's a good one, even if it does resist learning. ↗

— Harper Lee

#classic #change

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us. ↗

— Luis Valdez

#freedom #history #liberty #native-american #society

For poetry and I are one To separate is to decapitate For my poetry is forever. ↗

— Kerry D. Brackett

#african-american-authors #inspirational #poetry #inspirational

When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly. ↗

— Bill Frist

#american #american people #aside #falls #people

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#american cinema #become #cinema #disposable #even

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#american #american people #books #decency #deep

Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#american women #chinese #clothes #comes #flesh

The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#america #american #because #buy #countries

With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench. ↗

— Jim Walsh

#american way #ancestors #arms #came #died