America Quote by Gunnar Myrdal

“Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.”

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As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.

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So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.

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Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities.

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America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes.

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The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost…

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It is natural for the ordinary American when he sees something wrong to feel not only that there should be a law against it…

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Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be found to…

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America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.

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It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

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I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes]

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I'm gonna bring America together.

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