American culture Quote by Randall Robinson

“Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.” quote by Randall Robinson — Download Open image

“Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.”

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I'm aware that because America is so powerful - with its tentacles reaching out to the world - one doesn't escape it by leaving.…

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Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next…

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Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. When you…

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Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is twice theirs.…

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“Unbalanced power poisons introspection. In its vacated space lay living society's imperative questions, unseen, unphrased, unasked, unanswered.”

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I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.

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I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.

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Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.

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The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one…

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I don't know of any situation where you're going to have an officeholder in a country of eight million people who's cut off at…

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We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is…

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I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money…

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Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.

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