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It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its… — Pearl S. Buck
Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate.… — Frantz Fanon
When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in dollars and in… — John Howard Griffin
The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered. — John Oliver Killens
Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities,… — Maxine Hong Kingston
The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to… — Malcolm X
Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get in the pot… — Thurgood Marshall
Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought here to Jamestown… — Clarence Page
Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of… — Gloria Steinem
The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and… — David Walker
The danger is that people may mistake what is basically a change in vocabulary for a change in behavior, practices, and attitudes. While practically all… — Whitney M. Young
The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will be - to… — George Meany
Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw… — Spiro T. Agnew
I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our… — Barack Obama
Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans. — Freeman A. Hrabowski III
There is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as it is and to acquaint… — J. William Fulbright
Education is the best means-probably the only means-by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity about each other's behavior and intentions. It is the… — J. William Fulbright
By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country… — Chester W. Nimitz
I skate for the fans. It's not as fun without them there supporting me. I get energy from them and I want to skate well… — Evgeni Plushenko
Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is… — John C. Wright
We have a huge game coming up in semi-finals. Just studying Finland or the Americans, whoever we're playing. Just moving forward, working hard in practice… — Unknown Author
A soldier is the most-trusted profession in America. Americans have trust in you because you trust each other. No matter how difficult times are, those… — Richard A. Kidd
There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them? — Frank Chodorov

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