Quotes About North Americans

There is nothing North Americans seem to fear so much as manipulation, probably because at some level we know that we belong to a deeply manipulative system.

North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.

Just across the bridge is the gigantic marketplace, the insatiable consumer machine that drives the violence here. North Americans smoke the dope, snort the coke, shoot the heroin, do the meth, and then have the nerve to point south (down, of course, on the map), and wag their fingers at the "Mexican drug problem" and Mexican corruption.

Out of this incredible brutality, we get the myth of the happy darky and Gone With the Wind. And the North Americans appear to believe these legends, which they have created and which absolutely nothing in reality corroborates, until today. And when these legends are attacked, as is happening now—all over a globe which has never been and never will be White—my countrymen become childishly vindictive and unutterably dangerous. The

Perspective. Perspective on "need." Perspective on "hunger." Perspective on "money." Do you feel as if you're living paycheck to paycheck? You may well be, and my point is not to diminish the financial challenges facing many North Americans. But it's all about perspective. It's all about serving with eyes wide open.

These personal relationships make it more difficult to make generalized statements about who is in "spiritual darkness" and who is not, especially when many of our neighbors are nicer and more moral than some who call themselves Christian. Therefore, many North Americans, even those who call themselves followers of Jesus, conclude that all religions are fundamentally the same.