#erica

It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail. ↗

— Jeanette Rankin

#american women #committed #could #died #end

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#america #arrived #bad #company #dreadful

I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do. ↗

— Lynn Redgrave

#american citizen #become #beings #citizen #country

If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#actor #america #auditions #english #everything

My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#around #bandstand #celebrations #center #childhood

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that. ↗

— Anne Rice

#am #american #american writers #definitely #doubt

An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring. ↗

— Mario Vazquez

#america #american #american idol #attractive #idol

There is not a doubt in my mind that the people of America are hunkered down. They are afraid. ↗

— Ann Richards

#america #doubt #down #mind #people

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day. ↗

— Ann Richards

#day #days #elect #every #every day

This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that, in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation, scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#american people #anniversary #decades #greatest #help