American dream Quote by Shelby Steele

Protests, such as those in favor of labor rights, women's suffrage, civil rights and gay rights, helped to make America as great as it…

— Max Boot

Well, protest is central to the evolution of black American culture. It was protest that really finally won our freedom for us. Beyond that,…

— Shelby Steele

There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the…

— Jeff Sessions

Freedom in America was not always flat. Racism made it un-flat, so that some people had privileges over other people.

— Shelby Steele

I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way…

— Hugh Masekela

The Great Migration changed American history not just for the migrants but for all of us. It made possible American cultural milestones like the…

— William Barr

I gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as a much…

— Charles Kuralt

Liberty and freedom were the primary reason that people wanted to come here. They wanted to escape bondage, slavery, tyranny, poverty, whatever, where they…

— Rush Limbaugh

The uproar of the late '60s - the antiwar movement, black riots, angry women. It was a wonderful time.

— Molly Ivins

Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970s, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired of seeing our air,…

— Anonymous

Our blackness and how to survive being black in America was something that our parents instilled in us extraordinarily well.

— Yance Ford

[The strike in 1968] brought us together with teachers and also with progressive whites. All of us came from diverse backgrounds, but at the…

— Danny Glover