#erica

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#also #americana #bands #gritty #i

Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation. ↗

— Randy Forbes

#america #defense #economic #exploration #important

America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago. ↗

— Tommy Franks

#america #decided #die #going #hands

I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family. ↗

— Danny Glover

#about #african #african americans #anger #community

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. ↗

— James Joyce

#because #christopher #columbus #discover #everyone

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#answer #diversity #freedom #heritage #inspired

The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school. ↗

— William H. Gray

#argument #colorblind #equal #fair #free

We are not America. We are Afghanistan. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#america

The House has passed several bipartisan bills to ensure all Americans have the opportunity to secure a good job to provide for their families. All of these jobs bills deserve the support of our Senators and a strong show of leadership from the president. ↗

— Joe Heck

#bills #bipartisan #deserve #ensure #families

When the first of us failed at growing or herding or plowing the fields, we were told that we could sign a piece of paper and get money for the land, without anyone taking it. Mortgage, this was called, a piece of banker’s cleverness that sounded good to many. I spoke against this trick, but who listened to Nanapush? People signed the paper, got money, came home night after night full of whiskey and food. Suddenly the foreclosure notices were handed out and the land was barred. It belonged to someone else. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#food