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«Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.»
Author: Dick Gregory
| Keywords:
belonging, bills, Bill of Rights, black people, civil, civil right, civil rights, confused, Human rights, installment, installments, installment plan, stature, statures, the US
«Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.»
Author: Madeleine Albright
| Keywords:
allies, biological, chemical, chemicals, rogue, the US, threat
«If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.»
Author: Robert Novak
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communism, House of, House of Representatives, representatives, the House of Representatives, the US
«From 1945 to the end of the century, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements struggling against intolerable regimes. . . . In the process, the US caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.»
«I've just done a commercial in the U.S. in which I talk about stocks, shares and bonds. Everyone is amazed. They ask me: 'You really know about that stuff or did you just learn it for the commercial?' I tell them I wouldn't do it unless I understood and had an interest.»
Author: Anna Kournikova
(Model, Tennis Player)
| Keywords:
amazed, bonds, commercial, shares, stocks, the US
«It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.»
Author: Joseph Brodsky
(Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
jury, jury system, preferring, soviet, Soviets, Soviet Union, the system, the US, twelve
«Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.»
Author: Norman Cousins
(Editor, Essayist)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
Business Today, partner, senior, seniors, the US
«Indulging no passions which trespass on the rights or the repose of other nations, it has been the true glory of the US to cultivate peace by observing justice, and to entitle themselves to the respect of the nations at war by fulfilling their neutra»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| Keywords:
cultivate, entitle, fulfilling, indulging, observing, repose, The True Glory, the US, trespass, trespassing, True Glory
«Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
bluff, bluffer, deep space, Open society, simulation, simulations, spaces, technological, the US
«Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.»
Author: Will Rogers
| Keywords:
Alexander, Alexander Hamilton, closest, Hamilton, the US, Treasuries, treasury
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