#erica

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream. ↗

— James Sinegal

#american dream #chance #destroy #dream #feel

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going. ↗

— Nina Simone

#going #i #i think #important #more

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants. ↗

— Lamar S. Smith

#american workers #cheap #competition #every #foreign

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! ↗

— Israel Zangwill

#crucible #europe #god #great #melting

In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#american #available #been #before #entertainment

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad. ↗

— Alice Walker

#bad #being #forced #i #i think

[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#invention #progress #home

I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on. ↗

— Patrick White

#american #city #down #every #expecting

We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#american #assistance #certainly #course #foreign

When we came then to the 1967 negotiations we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the American companies that owned the facilities on both sides of the border. ↗

— Leonard Woodcock

#american companies #between #border #both #both sides