#erica

I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes. ↗

— Hollis Stacy

#american #attitude #daughters #doctors #feel

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#city #fly #getting #home #id

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#advanced #america #belief #believed #differentiation

When the Crossfire paradigm loses its force, all that's left is a bunch of people with different views all sitting together in a room, wondering why they're all paying three bucks a gallon for gas, why they have no health insurance, why their tax rates are higher than Warren Buffet's. If we're all equally a bunch of suckers, how could any of us be worth hating? ↗

— Matt Taibbi

#culture #politics #equality

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.' ↗

— Alan Alda

#american #chile #died #filming #frontiers

The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need for organization and order in civilian life. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#brigades #british #civilian #forces #had

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#cities #especially #fitted #into #land

I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#because #how #i #idea #live

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#american movie #come #film #french #going

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#channels #fascist #his #information #method