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• Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Success, Dream, Reality

  A Left-Handed Commencement Address, delivered 22 May 1983, Mills College, Oakland, California

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• It's time for the wealthy to pay their fair share before the middle class becomes the forgotten class.- And it's time for the banks to give back what they were given. There are those in politics, particularly those on the conservative side, who can't get enough of telling people that the wealthy one per cent must not be taxed because doing so kills jobs. The real job-killers are corporate greed and political expediency. It's time for working people in Maine and all across the country to take back the American dream.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Country, Jobs

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• What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

  Jesse Jackson

  Dream, Opportunity, Law

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• The American Dream means being part of a society that allows you to be or do whatever you want, and to have a sense that your individual optimism and hard work will be rewarded. It exists outside of the U.S. as well as inside. People continue to come here because they want to improve their lives, they want to be able to support themselves and they want to live in freedom. A lot of people who criticize this country still send their children here to study.

  Madeleine Albright

  Dream, Country, Children

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• I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my profession. I was not immediately good at basketball. It did not come easy. It came as the result of a lot of hard work and self-sacrifice. The rewards, where they worth it? One thousand times over.

  Bill Russell

  Leadership, Basketball, Sports

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• And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings.

  Kanye West

  Dream, Self Esteem, Team

  Song: Self Conscious

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• There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

  Mike Nichols

  Dream, Character, Serious

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• The American Dream, that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been a dream of material plenty, though that has doubtlessly counted heavily. It has been a dream of being able to grow to fullest development as a man and woman, unhampered by the barriers which had slowly been erected in the older civilizations, unrepressed by social orders which had developed for the benefit of classes rather than for the simple human being of any and every class.

  James Truslow Adams

  Dream, Simple, Men

  "The epic of America". Book by James Truslow Adams, 1931.

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• We as Americans are completely obsessed and wrapped up in a lot of the wrong values - looking good, having cash in the bank, being perceived as rich, famous and successful or just being famous... It's the most superficial part of the American dream and who would know better than me? The only thing that's going to bring you happiness is love and how you treat your fellow man and having compassion for one another.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Dream, Successful, Men

  "Madonna's Twisted Values" by Brian Doherty, reason.com. April 24, 2003.

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• I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Respect, Skin Color

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

  Yoko Ono

  Friendship, Inspiring, Leadership

  Twitter post from Jun 08, 2015

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• I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  Speech at Civil Rights March in Washington, 28 Aug. 1963, in New York Times 29 Aug. 1963, p. 21

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• We will rebuild our country with American workers, American iron, American aluminum, American steel. We will create millions of new jobs and make millions of American dreams come true. Our infrastructure will again be the best in the world. We used to have the greatest infrastructure anywhere in the world, and today, we are like a third-world country. We are literally like a third-world country. Our infrastructure will again be the best, and we will restore the pride in our communities, our nation.

  Donald Trump

  Dream, Country, Pride

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.

  Bill Hicks

  Dream, Jeans, Three

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  Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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  I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Children

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living.

  David Abrahamsen

  Dream, Country, People

  San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, November 18, 1975.

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• I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Dream, Struggle, Usa

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• The new American Dream is about having an interesting life, not making a lot of money.

  Penelope Trunk

  Dream, Interesting, Lots Of Money

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• I wanted to give people the ability once again to realize that they can still dream, but it has to be a new American dream that's based in honesty, integrity, and security - a dream that allows you to sleep at night, a dream that is attainable and allows you to stand in your truth.

  Suze Orman

  Dream, Honesty, Integrity

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• The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Dream, Hard Work, Passion

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• You see, without hard work and responsibility, there is no American Dream. Hard work lays the foundation. Our solidarity makes work pay - for all of us. For the greater good. That's what our vision of shared prosperity is all about.

  Richard Trumka

  Dream, Responsibility, Hard Work

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• I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

  David Henry Hwang

  Dream, Want, Way

  "Great Expectations, And Some Hope Of Meeting Them". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.nhpr.org. June 28, 2012.

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• The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd.

  Zoltan Istvan

  Dream, Comfort, Spirit

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• The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

  J. G. Ballard

  Running, Dream, America

  Metaphors, No. 7, 1983.

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