#states

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat. ↗

— Richard Hofstadter

#either #founded #history #intellectual #intellectuals

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates? ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#allow #any #destroy #enslave #estates

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#am #another #covert #i #i am

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#being #death #death penalty #fatal #lottery

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer. ↗

— James Tobin

#columbia #columbia university #days #entered #i

In the report made on behalf of the C.G.T. we affirmed that the Peace Treaty should, in accordance with the spirit of workers' organizations, lay the first foundations of the United States of Europe. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#affirmed #behalf #europe #first #foundations

Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#came #coffee #colombia #how #i

I think he should let me run Ohio. He should let us, the legislature, the members there, we should be running Ohio. The states are the laboratories out here, and I think the president needs to mind to the problems that he has in Washington. ↗

— John Kasich

#i #i think #laboratories #legislature #let us

This is not about Republican or Democrat. It is about our children, it's about our families, it is about our country, and frankly, ladies and gentlemen, it is about the world. We've got to leave here and march, and make sure Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are president and vice president of the United States. ↗

— John Kasich

#children #country #democrat #families #frankly

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#haiti #occupied #states #united #united states