Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

Herbert Hoover versus Al Smith in 1928 was one of the dirtiest elections in American history.

Joseph Cummins

Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history.

Stephen Kinzer

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

Alphonso Jackson

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

Anson Mount

I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.

Gordon Gee

I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.

Simon Van Booy

I'm proud to be an American. I'm proud to be an African American in America. I've had some interesting experiences: some great, some not so great, but I love it here.

Wesley Snipes

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.

Bobby Seale

Are these the Americans? People remain silent and placate the Americans. By God, they only deserve scorn. We slaughtered them yesterday and we will continue to slaughter them.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

Susan Rice

You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.

Eric Burdon

We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.

Ted Cruz

I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

Ed Pastor

I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.

Ed Pastor

Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public must be all for it from the outset.

Evan Thomas

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

George Carlin

Most people use Twitter to meet girls, and I use it to meet 'American Idol' contestants!

Chris Jericho

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.

Chris Jordan

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

Constance Baker Motley