Quotes About America

Alexander VI (1492–1503) was an astute political leader, a skillful diplomat, and a careful shepherd of the church's fiscal resources. Alexander also supported missionary work in North and South America and in the Far East and by so doing anticipated extremely important developments in the later history of Christianity. In

Evangelicals do not, characteristically, look to the intellectual life as an arena in which to glorify God because, at least in America, our history has been pragmatic, populist, charismatic, and technological more than intellectual.

He couldn't comprehend the story of French civilians spitting on their wounded soldiers when they returned from the Indochina War. He thought Lartéguy must have made that up. Such a thing certainly could not happen in America.

America's food system is broken.

In what's usually referred to as "the Columbian Exchange" -one of history's great misnomers, given the genocide that followed - Europe took so much of value from the Indigenous people of what became known as North and South America that it was able to rule most of the world until the mid-twentieth century.

They had traveled the world, to Korea, Thailand, Central America ... they knew each other better than most brothers did.

We cannot live in a world that thinks it can fuck with America. Because once every piss-ant dictator, rebel, warlord, and terrorist thinks he can fuck with America, he will!

who want to dismantle the American military—because we are the last defense of America. We cannot allow that to happen. I will not allow that to happen. Not while I can still pull the trigger.

In postwar America, mass production of automobiles and tract housing signaled the beginning of urban decline and suburban sprawl.

The quickest way to improve the self-esteem of everyone in America would be to hire professional photographers to work at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

And a full 70 percent of American adults and 40 percent of kids are overweight.

Sex and the City 2, a movie which goes some way toward justifying the global resentment against America and the English-speaking world.

It is not an overstatement to say that the destiny of the entire human race depends on what is going on in America today. This is a staggering reality to the rest of the world; they must feel like passengers in a supersonic jetliner who are forced to watch helplessly while a passel of drunks, hypes, freaks, and madmen fight for the controls and the pilot's seat. – Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, 1968

A key to understanding why Lockdown America rises today is to consider our present system of punishment, particularly U.S. mass incarceration and police repression, as related to the production of economic wealth in the recent history of the United States.

Lockdown America, as that triadic structure of police violence, mass incarceration and the death penalty, is one key assemblage of governing forces, of the state's "jaws." Theorists

Christians who are able to subvert their own public hegemony of Christianity are able to aid in the dismantling of Lockdown America because that hegemony unleashes many ideological reflexes that often sustain today's capitalist-carceral state.

If you want to save America's soul, consider becoming a minister. If you want to force people to confess their sins and convert, don a white robe and head to the River Jordan. If you are determined to bring the Last Judgment down on the United States of America, become a god. But if you want to win the country back from the right, and bring about lasting change for the people you care about, it's time to descend from the pulpit.*

Enter Ronald Reagan. Roosevelt's political vision was no longer compelling to members of the relatively affluent, hyperindividualized, and suburbanized society America had become.

Carter delivered his diagnosis of America's malaise, Reagan responded, "I find no national malaise. I find nothing wrong with the American people." He even had the daring to tell voters they should reelect Carter "if he instills in you pride for your country and a sense of optimism about our future"—a brilliant parry that just reminded people how much they wanted to feel patriotic again.

I tried my best to fight oppression, but America's at her happiest ruled by liars.

By the end of the nineteenth century, the United States would consume nearly half of the world's coffee.

America has never been a pure democracy and majoritarianism has always been as much feared as monarchism.

But the historical evidence paints a picture of a colonial press that is courageous, vigorous, and openly partisan about America's principles in promoting and defending the cause and arguments for the revolution

bears remembering that the purpose of a free press, like the purpose of free speech, is to nurture the mind, communicate ideas, challenge ideologies, share notions, inspire creativity, and advocate and reinforce America's founding principles—that is, to contribute to a vigorous, productive, healthy, and happy individual and to a well-functioning civil society and republic.