Excluded Quote by Edward Zwick

I was in high school in 1953 when the Committee of One Million circulated a petition urging that Red China - one third of…

— Brian Dennehy

America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together,…

— Ivan Krastev

“When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.”

— Gerald W. Haslam

“For the house of Dunraven, the ravens represented a spiritual claim to the Tower for the Celtic, especially the Welsh, people. For the English,…

— Boria Sax

“regimes of the twentieth century depended not just on repression and control of the populace but on the active construction of national myth. Here…

— Philip Ball

Black people in the US are told all the time, from all aspects, that they're nothing, that they're less than. And of course that…

— Jesmyn Ward

I think one big thing about the United States is that the American population, they may be excited about Iraq or one thing or…

— Amartya Sen

Gentlemen, as sure as I'm sitting here now, the result of continuation of a non-system, the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude, the constant rejection of any…

— Dianne Feinstein

“During the forty-five months of World War II, the United States lost just under 1 percent of its adult male population; during the Civil…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

During my years in the United States, I met a lot of evangelicals; they comprise a quarter of the American population, and are utterly…

— Neil Macdonald

I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I'm a bit distorted perhaps in my appreciation for the larger…

— Brad Carson

It is not more people that are needed in the world but better people, physically, morally and mentally. This question of raising the quality…

— Agnes E Meyer