“ Being on the frontier, as I've said, required doing rather than imagining: clearing land, building shelter, obtaining food supplies. Frontiers test ideologies like nothing else. There is no time for t… Robert D. Kaplan
“ I was a Shoemaker, & got my living by my Labor. When this Rebellion come on, I saw some of my Neighbors got into Commission, who were no better than myself. I was very ambitious, & did not like to see… Howard Zinn
“ There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime. That is not an exaggeration. John Baker
“ But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our constitution is color-blind, and neither k… John Marshall Harlan
“ Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by many good as well as by evil men. Nationalism is a relatively recent p… Robert H. Jackson
“ Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!"In 1966 upon being told that President Charles DeGaulle had taken France out of NATO and that all U.S. troops must be evacuated off of French soil President Lyndon… Lyndon B. Johnson
“ The problem with the politicians of both parties in the US is that neither of them have a real agenda except to feather their own nests. They both have their hands deep in corporate pockets. All the r… Michael Hogan
“ Here is how I propose to end book-banning in this country once and for all: Every candidate for school committee should be hooked up to a lie detector and asked this question: Have you read a book fro… Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“ Wait till Buzz takes charge of us. A real Fascist dictatorship!Nonsense! Nonsense! snorted Tasbrough. That couldn't happen here in America, not possibly! We're a country of freemen.The answer to that,… Sinclair Lewis
“ The other patrollers were boys and men of bad character; the work attracted a type. In another country they would have been criminals, but this was America. Colson Whitehead
“ To be black in America is a wild and endless assault on the senses. You can spend every day fighting off your spiritual and intellectual extinction. Carvell Wallace
“ Ours was the first nation to be founded on the idea that all are created equal and all deserve equal treatment under the law. Despite our missteps and shortcomings, these ideals still inspire hope amo… Jimmy Carter
“ You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine and applicable, but they understate the task and allow the citizens of this country to pretend that… Ta-Nehisi Coates
“ If this were a courageous country,it would ask Gloria to lead itsince she is sane and funny and beautiful and smartand the National Leaders we've always hadare not.When I listen to her talk about wome… Alice Walker
“ It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and the G.N.P. high and a great many articulate people seemed to have a sense of high social purpose and… Joan Didion
