The rich are different from us. —F. Scott Fitzgerald More about this quote Tags: identity wealth different Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My country tears of thee. —Lawrence Ferlinghetti More about this quote Tags: disappointment sadness USA Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm tired of waiting. It's time for us to find our own voice, to do our own organizing, to push forward on reform, to push forward on issues of economic justice, and to make the United States of America, this good country, even better. —Paul Wellstone More about this quote Tags: justice action USA waiting better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We started from scratch, every American an immigrant who came because he wanted change. Why are we now afraid to change? —Eleanor Roosevelt More about this quote Tags: change America Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. —Dwight D. Eisenhower More about this quote Tags: change influence USA Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ideally, one should have a great deal of courage and strength, but not boast or make a big show of it. Then, in times of need, one should rise to the occasion and fight bravely for what is right. —14th Dalai Lama More about this quote Tags: strength courage bravery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision. —Abbie Hoffman More about this quote Tags: history power change authority fighting obedience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is supposed to be part of the American tradition that if we want to step out of line, we step out of line. Democracy isn't falling in line behind the president. Democracy is for people to think independently, be skeptical of government, look around and try to find out what's going on. And if they find out that government is deceiving them, to speak out as loudly as they can. —Howard Zinn More about this quote Tags: politics power democracy government protest America skepticism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness, and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock. —Margaret Halsey More about this quote Tags: aggression skepticism competion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A civilization which tends to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a fortunate few, and to make of others mere human machines, must inevitably evolve anarchy and bring destruction. —Henry George More about this quote Tags: power destruction luck wealth civilization machines anarchy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. —Stewart I. Udall More about this quote Tags: fear power greatness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half have never voted for president. One hopes it is the same half. —Gore Vidal More about this quote Tags: education knowledge USA Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence and back into bondage. —Fraser Tyler More about this quote Tags: history apathy progress nations world faith liberty courage wealth slavery abundance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don Quixote is the true American. . . . You do not have to look in many American eyes to suddenly meet somewhere the beautiful grave lunacy of his gaze. —Tennessee Williams More about this quote Tags: dreams America Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer. —Dorothy Fuldheim More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email