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• You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Men, Matter, Freedom

• There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Ambition, Ideals

  Tags in American

• Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?

  Burt Lancaster

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  Tags in American

• Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what ‘was’ and ‘were,’ we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

  Buffy Sainte Marie

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  Tags in Living, American, Kids

• Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth.

  Bud Selig

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  Tags in Game, Baseball, American

• Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he’s standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

  Iris DeMent

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  Tags in Pretty, American, Fight

• But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.

  Peter Scott

  Topics in America

  Tags in American

• I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism – those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Topics in America

  Tags in American

• I’m basically a homegrown American.

  Junior Seau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Basically

• The Democrats in the Senate adopted a resolution, an amendment, saying that there should be no Guantanamo detainees brought into this country. So, more and more, we’re finding the American people on one side, the ACLU and the troglodytes from the New York Times on the other, where they belong.

  Peter King

  Topics in Country

  Tags in American

• We went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to account for his weapons of mass destruction, consistently violated UN resolutions and in a post-9/11 world no American president could afford to give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt.

  Peter King

  Topics in America

  Tags in American

• If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.

  Ida B. Wells

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  Tags in American, Punishment, Conscience

• Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

  Ida B. Wells

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  Tags in American, Against

• The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

  Ida B. Wells

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  Tags in American, Race

• The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.

  Ida B. Wells

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  Tags in American

• The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

  Ida B. Wells

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  Tags in Spirit, Increasing, American

• The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

  Ida B. Wells

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  Tags in American, Used, Defense

• The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

  Ida B. Wells

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, American

• We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Topics in Positive

  Tags in American, Continue, Union

• I’m not usually attracted to big-budget American films.

  Ian Hart

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  Tags in Attracted, American