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◆ If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.

- Malcolm X100

◆ I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

- Muhammad Ali99

◆ Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

- Gore Vidal99

◆ Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it

- Yogi Berra99

◆ This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it

- Al Capone99

◆ The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression and that every

- Henry Brooks Adams99

◆ In America, the young are always ready to give to those older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled

- James Russell Lowell99

◆ The American idea is a free church in a free state, and a free and unsectarian public school in every ward and every village with its door wide open to children of all races and every creed

- Henry Cabot Lodge99

◆ A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking about education.

- Dolly Parton99

◆ By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy99

◆ Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

- Morton Hunt99

◆ Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

- Dave Barry99

◆ You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.

- Ralph Kiner99

◆ To be a Negro in America is to hope against hope.

- Martin Luther King Jr99