#eric

My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#america #been #belief #board #creativity

There is a reason the world always looks to America. ↗

— Julia Gillard

#america #looks #reason #world

The American people will regret the day I was crucified by politics and bureaucracy." Billy Mitchell ↗

— James Bradley

#courage

There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#people #royalty

The mad, cruel, and accursed American war. ↗

— Lord George Gordon

#american #cruel #mad #war

It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver. ↗

— Morton Gould

#cab #cab driver #composer #driver #say

Unfortunately, the cyber threat to 'the grid' is only one means of eviscerating the soft underbelly of American society. Another which has been getting increasing attention could be delivered via the kind of nuclear-armed ballistic missile that Iran and North Korea have been developing: a strategic electro-magnetic pulse attack. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#american society #another #attack #attention #ballistic

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S. ↗

— Eduardo Galeano

#almost #am #america #anything #astonished

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#america #become #breathing #inherit #institutional

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african #allen #ambivalent #american #been