#ric

American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections that until recent were treated as obvious or self-evident everywhere on the planet. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#american #connections #conservatism #continued #depends

Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#continually #creative #director #element #erode

When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#american #american family #any #anything #doing

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#american foreign policy #criticism #foreign #foreign policy #graham

I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#american cities #children #cities #cross #families

There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#believing #diffusion #english #far #general

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security. ↗

— Louis Freeh

#american people #degree #exchange #give #must

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#black #dr #hero #king #luther

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#america #guilty #i #life #misgivings

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#built #could #days #dwell #fires