Quote by Eldridge Cleaver
Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad

Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt. – Eldridge Cleaver

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America. – Eldridge Cleaver

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Change
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The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. – Eldridge Cleaver

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Dance, Dancing
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America
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America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco. – Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

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America

Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty. – Richard Cardinal Cushing

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America

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin

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America

Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers – Jean Baudrillard

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America

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Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. – Geoffrey Chaucer

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Women

When bureaucrats talk about increasing our access to x, y or z, what theyre really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to increase Internet access. – Michelle Malkin

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Health

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. – Adam Smith

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Unions

My parents marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they werent good for each other. – Gail Porter

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Marriage