North America Quotes - Page 5

• It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are.

  Malcolm X

  Taken, Men, America

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• New Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the only international city on the continent of North America. There were all different races and everything was celebrated, and it was a place of difference, and everybody was different and it was so odd, the minute that America took over, the minute that the Louisiana territory became part of the United States of America, instantly you were either black or white. There was no nuance. and so a free man of color who could own property was suddenly not allowed to.

  John Guare

  Men, Color, Cities

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In North America someone who doesn't know anybody, he can go... you can be respected for your own identity. It pushes your personality to become stronger.

  Gaspar Noe

  America, Personality, Stronger

  "Living Is a Selfish Act: An Interview with Gaspar Noe". "Post Script" Interview with Mitch Davis, June 22, 2002.

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• When [Bill] Clinton came along, it sort of moderated a little bit, but Clinton had a different device for breaking unions called NAFTA [North America Free Trade Agreement]. Because the government was entirely lawless, employers could exploit NAFTA to threaten union organizers with transfer. It's illegal, but when you've got a lawless government, it doesn't matter if it's illegal. I think the number of union drives blocked increased by about 50 percent.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Government, Agreement

  Source: www.iww.org

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• The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

  Susan Sontag

  Europe, America, Body

  Source: ctheory.net

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• We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that's emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada. And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.

  Alan Bersin

  Order, America, People

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Maybe I've been a small part of the democratisation of celebrity, because I've been fascinated by it, and when it started to happen to me to the very limited extent that it happens to writers in North America, I was exposed to people who had the disease of celebrity. People who had raging, raging, life-threatening celebrity, people who would be in danger if they were left alone on the street without their minders. It's a great anthropological privilege to be there.

  William Gibson

  America, People, Would Be

  Source: craphound.com

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• I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing.

  Murray Bookchin

  Real, Opportunity, America

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• In my case I would emphasize anarcho-communalism, along with the ecological questions, the feminist questions, the anti-nuclear issues that exist, and along with the articulation of popular institutions in the community. I think it's terribly important for anarchists to do that because at this moment not very much is happening anywhere in North America.

  Murray Bookchin

  Thinking, America, Issues

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• For [Malcolm Subban] I know that he's the No. 1 ranked goalie in North America and the world right now, he's got a great opportunity. He's got to enjoy this whole process because it only comes once. Not that many players get the opportunity to walk up on that stage and get that jersey.

  P. K. Subban

  Opportunity, Player, America

  Source: www.complex.com

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• America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there, and the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.

  Alan Bersin

  Gun, Organization, America

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I think - particularly in terms of the destiny of Africans in North America - our destiny has also been shaped indelibly by global alliances.

  Gerald Horne

  Destiny, Thinking, America

  Source: politicalaffairs.net

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• Bloomberg TVThe one thing I think is likely to happen under either candidate is massive fiscal stimulus. You have so many voters in Western Europe and North America who've had no real income growth for over 10 years, and they are, in the words of Howard Beale, "Mad as hell and not going to take it anymore."

  Gary Shilling

  Real, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The climate of this planet has been changing since God put the planet here. It will always change, and the warming in the last 10 years is not much difference than the warming we saw in the 1930s and other decades. And, lets not forget we are at the end of the ice age in which ice covered most of North America and Northern Europe.

  James Spann

  Years, Europe, Ice

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• Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We've come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people's willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa.

  Kandyse McClure

  Moving, Home, Race

  "Actress Kandyse McClure on Living in Apartheid and Her Career". Interview with Bryan Cain-Jackson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2013.

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• In North America, hip-hop and urban music are much more developed than it could be in Europe, except for a couple of markets like France, for example, or Germany, they're a little bit more aware.

  K-Maro

  Couple, Europe, Urban Music

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• So we have a tremendous amount of water where the two greatest rivers in North America meet. And then all of the tributaries from the various areas come in there also. It's also highly populated. So we're working a number of water rescues. We're working extremely hard to keep people safe and make sure that we're keeping the rule of law and keep people warm. It's been pretty cold.

  Jay Nixon

  Law, Two, Rivers

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Well what are our geopolitical objectives? First, that North America be peaceful, prosperous, dominated by the United States. Second, that no nation be able to approach the United States militarily ... Those are the goals. It's very simple. We achieve that by making certain that all conflict takes place in the Eastern Hemisphere so we don't have conflict here.

  George Friedman

  Simple, America, Goal

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• We thought [with Alix MacKenzie], if those are the kinds of pots from every culture that interest us, why would we think that it should be any different in mid-North America 20th century? And we decided then that our work would center around that sort of utilitarian pottery, and that's what I've done ever since.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Thinking, America, Culture

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined).

  Susan Sontag

  Europe, America, Conservative

  Source: ctheory.net

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• In Western Europe and North America some things are better than they were - at least relative to their moral nadirs - such as labour legislation, the opening of the professions to women, intolerance for domestic violence, but so much is still morally unacceptable - the weapons trade, cruel and unusual punishment, economic parasitism.

  Catherine Wilson

  Europe, Punishment, America

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think there's a big market in North America [with travelers] going to Lisbon and connecting over Lisbon.

  David Neeleman

  Thinking, America, Bigs

  Source: skift.com

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• We Canadians need to go beyond what any previous government has done in terms of our diplomatic network, our support for companies to export, trade and invest beyond North America, and our contribution to the safety of the international system, through defence, development, international organizations, and so forth.

  Chris Alexander

  Government, Organization, America

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be constantly reminded that there are still existent Indigenous peoples and communities in North America, but whether left or right, recent immigrant or descendants of settlers, even descendants of enslaved Africans, the Native presence is not a consideration in the day to day life of individuals and municipal, state and national governments.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  America, Government, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In 1619, when there are reports about the first blacks brought to British North America, they are referred to as N-I-G-G-U-H-S. Well, it doesn't seem that that was meant in a derogatory way. It seems merely descriptive.

  Randall Kennedy

  America, Way, Firsts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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