America Quote by Linda Colley

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

— John Pilger

I am a Simple and Understanding Soldier fighting neither for Money nor War, but fighting for the emancipation of Black race all .over the…

— Don Kel

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.

— Dick Gregory

“Our government seemed to expect the same of them as of white men. Poor Negroes! They are hopelessly inferior. . . . If you…

— Joseph E. Persico

Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in…

— Emma Goldman

Many of these Americans who are struggling to survive are Americans of color, .. Their cries for assistance confront America with a test of…

— Elijah Cummings

When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less…

— John M. McHugh

War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.

— George Carlin

I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

— John Kasich

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

— Henry Rollins