#erica

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human. ↗

— Chely Wright

#democrat #human #i

I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#america #arab #arab countries #countries #difference

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#always #am #american #i #i am

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#american dream #cheap #consumer #coupled #courtesy

The auto industry is standing today. The middle class is standing today. Ohio is standing today. America is standing strong today. ↗

— Ted Strickland

#auto #auto industry #class #industry #middle

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row. ↗

— Danny Glover

#african americans #bad #bad times #black #country

The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist. ↗

— Danny Glover

#agreements #america #celebrate #energy #find

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#day #every #every day #fairly #inspired

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#american cinema #because #cinema #french #i

As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market. ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

#corny #crack #goal #market #may