America Quote by Utah Phillips Download Open image “As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America….” — Utah Phillips ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Ideas Long Memories Memory Radical Radical ideas Said
“Yes, the long memory is the most radical idea in this country. It is the loss of that long memory which deprives our people… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's slogan: "Let's make America great again." And when I hear that, that seems to suggest there was a moment in the past… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“The American people and media have an incredibly short memory despite technological tools that allow for infinite storage and recall.” — Baratunde Thurston Copy Share Image
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world. — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The 'politics of memory' policy appears to work largely by insinuation. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
“Yes, the long memory is the most radical idea in this country. It is the loss of that long memory which deprives our people… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions. — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
You are about to be told one more time that you are America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they do to… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend,… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system. It's our… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
“These kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
I said, "OK, Ammon [Hennacy], I will try that." He said, "You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
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