Quote by Ralph Ellison

“I am not one thing. I am many things that America has been in my time. I had enough sense to keep moving, learning,…

— Ray Bradbury

“I realized that it was precisely because of America’s glaring imperfections that I should seek to participate in its progress, carve a place in…

— Eboo Patel

“To being an us for once, instead of a them.”

— Jonathon Larson

“In reality, though, the ranks of our enemies, those who would and can inflict serious damage on America, have grown and diversified.”

— Ted Koppel

“Set a good example of what America means for the generations to come. They will need it.”

— Timothy Snyder

“America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving.”

— Bryant McGill

“I have a tremendous fascination with the United States of America, the grand, swirling variousness of it, the way it siphons off the ambitious,…

— Roland Merullo

“He says finally, “It’s terrifying when you consider that every thought we have, every choice we could possibly make, branches into a new world.”

— Blake Crouch

“But isn’t that strange and wonderful unpredictability part of humanity? Aren’t all of our differences what already make us a great nation?”

— Libba Bray

“Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for.”

— Joshua Ferris

“The American character, and the American dream, could never be disentangled, and ultimately the latter would go only as far as the former would…

— Anonymous

“Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.”b”

— Barack Obama