American people Quote by Howard Zinn

“The dead hand of society’s inertia and the financial interest of the elite minority hold us back as a species. They govern us so…

— Peter F. Hamilton

“We no longer need companies, institutions, or government to organize us. We now have the tools to organize ourselves. We can find each other…

— Jeff Jarvis

“In the decades following the Revolution, America changed so much and so rapidly that Americans not only became used to change, but came to…

— Gordon S. Wood

“-- it's rapidly turning into an us versus them scenario. And it's all but assured that someone is going to fall into the mass…

— Emmanuel Goldstein

“We the people are the United States of America. Not the military, not Washington, DC, not the president, not the Congress. They all work…

— Mike Foster

“But now we find ourselves turning to our own country. Over the past two years, we have watched politicians say and do things that…

— Steven Levitsky

“What I know about my country is that when America is challenged, we rise to the occasion. When we’re fearful, we become divided. When…

— Keith Ellison

“Chant back to us our platitudes about democracy, greatness, and freedom. Vote in our rigged corporate elections. Send your young men and women to…

— Chris Hedges

“We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place.”

— Patti Digh

“We are turning into a nation of rigid, mindless, rule-driven bureaucrats, incapable or unwilling to exercise any degree of common sense or compassion.”

— Joseph Befumo

“Fundamentally Transforming the United States of America" may well have been the beginning of the end if we don't educate ourselves and take a…

— Brad S. Van Conant II