#states

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about. ↗

— John Hume

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#concern #essence #future #past #probing

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#calling #describe #elsewhere #i #insist

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side. ↗

— Luther Allison

#get #just #lifetime #side #south

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#constitutional #general #man #opinions #statesman

We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States. ↗

— Majel Barrett

#comic strip #computer-generated #first #having #states

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. ↗

— Dave Barry

#catch #count #did #increasing #metric

The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#adequately #communities #creating #current #filled

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#because #being #democracy #dictatorship #discipline

States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all. ↗

— John Bruton

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