#erica

As you know, I have always been curious about our immortality... how it feels to live on and on through time....I need speculate no longer, I have sampled eternity in Miss Campbell's fifth period "social studies" class. Three days on the concept of "manifest destiny," Vasile. THREE DAYS. I yearned to stand up, rip her lecture notes from her pallid hands, and scream, 'Yes, America expanded westward! Is that not logical, given that Europeans settled on the Eastern shore? What else were they to do? Advance vainly into the sea? ↗

— Beth Fantaskey

#anger #eternity #manifest-destiny #social-studies #anger

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense. ↗

— John Cusack

#age #air #also #america #apocalypse

The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch. ↗

— Larry David

#food #hot #i #like #lunch

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#bridges #conceivable #day #each #end

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#affordable #affordable health care #all americans #care #health

American workers are first rate. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#american workers #first #rate #workers

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India. ↗

— Andy Stern

#american #american workers #china #companies #compete

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#age group #america #brain #children #development

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#any #behind #effort #fabric #help

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#beings #class #democratic #democratic society #fellowship