"If you call yourself an American that means that you have embraced the constitution, because that is what an American is. A citizen of the United States of America is someone who has sworn an oath of allegiance to that document, to the words, to the ideals of that document. Right now we have citizens who don't even understand what that document is."

-- Scott Ritter

#Mean Quotes #America Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“You leave part of yourself on every stage you're on. How could you not live in the air somehow?”

Source : "The Natural" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2011.
“Detroit was an exaggeration of what was going on across the country. You could see the divisions, even within the Civil Rights Movement of that period. At the same time that Martin Luther King was talking about his dream, Malcolm X gave his most famous address in Detroit during that same period, "The Message To The Grass Roots," dismissing the notion of integration.”

Source : "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.
“Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.”
“I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a time to rebel, against our parents, against everything.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Democracy means that if this man,you Miss and I will be trapped on an island, we having a majority of votes will decide that you have to sleep with us. That's the Democracy. And with 2/3 votes we can even put that in the constitution.”
“Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.”
“Missing rubs the soul raw.”

Source : Sarah Dunant (2001). “Mapping the Edge: A Novel”, p.8, Random House
“The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.”

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