#erica

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side. ↗

— Sam Shepard

#being #breeding #divided #fear #fence

The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#cheney #disagree #disagreeing #ever #heard

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics. ↗

— Ken Burns

#american #american music #armstrong #century #did

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America. ↗

— Ken Burns

#accurate #america #century #curiously #jazz

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#bone #earth #forms #longest #skeleton

Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years. ↗

— David Wain

#audience #cable #course #disappointment #etc

Nector [speaking to Bernadette] could have told her, having drunk down the words of Nanapush, that comfort is not security and money in the hand disappears. He could have told her that only the land matters and never to let go of the papers, the titles, the tracks of the words, all those things that his ancestors never understood how the vital relationship to the dirt and grass under their feet. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#native-american #ojibwe #prophesy #treaty #money

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#authority #because #democracy #failure #hands

If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#arrogant #country #god #kind #repent

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#applaud #commitment #evangelicals #growing #i