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Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#counted #did #had #passive #today

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#america #everything #forget #let us #repudiation

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#changed #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #commercial

One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#african #african american #allowed #american #before

The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#america #american #could #effort #everything

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#coming #english #feel #hell #here

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell. ↗

— Noel Redding

#different #drummers #hendrix #met #mitch

I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#big #control #exercise #factor #i

I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#gave #i #much #my own #never

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