Us Quotes
47542 Us quotes by 14169 unique authors
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What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us. Fighters are among…
— Janet Morris
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He made us laugh, he took my pain away. I love you, Lauretta.
— Marty Feldman
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One extremely important purpose of emotions from an evolutionary perspective is to help us decide what to remember and what to forget. The cavewoman who…
— Candace Pert
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Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.
— William Eldridge Odom
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They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the Year of the Woman. Then…
— Bella Abzug
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As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
— Chinua Achebe
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We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American…
— Maya Angelou
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We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people…
— Maya Angelou
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Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe…
— Clive Bell
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I know I'm not a man-about that much I'm very clear, and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman either, at…
— Kate Bornstein
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I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its…
— William Wells Brown
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Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time,…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Each of us has much more hidden inside us than we have had a chance to explore. Unless we create an environment that enables us…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three…
— Stephen Covey
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Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover. Of course…
— Mary Alice
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...but we also know that to be educated, the goal of it must be human liberation-liberation enabling each of us to fulfill our capacity so…
— Hillary Clinton
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You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and…
— Frederick Douglass
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We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the…
— Charles Ferguson
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We had no churches, no religious organizations, so sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble and sing and…
— Geronimo
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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
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
— Lillian Hellman
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In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God…
— Carter Heyward
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It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles."
— Sonia Johnson
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We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with…
— Chief Joseph
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