America Quote by Paula Gunn Allen

Memory in America suffers amnesia.

— Meridel Le Sueur

America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

— Henry Giroux

One of the things people often say about America is that it's a such a young country, relatively, and its problem - Europeans say…

— Miroslav Penkov

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets…

— Studs Terkel

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

— Rebecca Harding Davis

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

— Meir Kahane

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

— David McCullough

We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything,…

— Gore Vidal

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

— James Carroll

It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as a species…

— Colman Domingo

The collective memory of America is short.

— Ben Fountain