America
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Here in the United States, corporations has human rights. And then why not — why not nature also, if corporations can defend themselves, saying, 'We have human rights?' Well, let's admit that nature also should be protected.
We struck an unusual deal. I'll get to leave CNN with my catalog and documentaries. We were able to create a brand at CNN — 'Black in America' — that I now own. I can take that brand and extend it in any way I want.
America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus' famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.
America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.
When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.
In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.
A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.
More than 48 million men and women have served America well and faithfully in military uniform.
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
There is this myth, that America is a melting pot, but what happens in assimilation is that we end up deliberately choosing the American things - hot dogs and apple pie - and ignoring the Chinese offerings.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and schools are selling astronomical amounts of junk food in order to supplement shrinking budgets. It's a ticking time bomb, and America's children are exploding.
The American dream is dead for the majority of America.
When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.
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