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“Most people mostly use freedom of speech as freedom to bitch.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Being an American is more than a birthright. It is something we must prove worthy everyday, failure to do so insults those who have…

— Mark W Boyer

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.

— Herb Ritts

“One cannot be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“You will have to live among Americans, and they despise most freedoms, so conform.”

— James A. Michener

“it is difficult to understand that not everyone in the world wants to be an American.”

— Bruce Cumings

“One of the prerogatives of American citizenship is the right to criticize public men and measures, and that means not only informed and responsible…

— 1944 Felix Frankfurter of the U.S. Supreme Court

“You'll say things all wrong but they'll at once become American ways of saying things. You won't know shit but it'll right away become…

— Salman Rushdie

“America belongs to all who live here and call her home; of every color and background; that is central to what makes America great.…

— Leland Lewis

“An American is insubmissive, lonely, self-educated, and polite.”

— Thornton Wilder

“All America is divided into two classes - the quality and the equality. The latter will always recognize the former when mistaken for it.”

— Owen Wister

“Americans had grown soft with all of their rights and personal freedom.”

— Vince Flynn