American Society Quotes - Page 2

• Unfortunately, the cyber threat to 'the grid' is only one means of eviscerating the soft underbelly of American society. Another which has been getting increasing attention could be delivered via the kind of nuclear-armed ballistic missile that Iran and North Korea have been developing: a strategic electro-magnetic pulse attack.

  Frank Gaffney

  Mean, Iran, Korea

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• Nuestras leyes deben reflejar la evolución de la tecnología y las expectativas cambiantes de la sociedad estadounidense. Por eso se suele decir que la Constitución es un documento "vivo".

  Al Franken

  Tecnología, Derecho, Expectativas

  "Privacy And Civil Liberties In The Digital Age" by Al Franken, www.wired.com. March 2, 2012.

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• At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Confusion, Hospitality, Mets

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.39, Univ of California Press

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• The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

  Joe Biden

  September, September 11th, Stills

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• We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.

  Antonio Banderas

  Mean, Integrated, Fashionable

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• When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

  Isaac Asimov

  Ignorance, Cutting, Science

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.54, Bantam

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• Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.

  Ernest Istook

  Years, Dollars, Cost

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• American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

  Jack Kemp

  Cities, Long, Despair

  "Speakers List:Jack Kemp, Republican Vice Presidential Nominee". www.cnn.com.

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• What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it.

  Mark Levin

  Father, Government, Faces

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• American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Equality, True Meaning

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• I’ve come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.

  John Tanton

  Views, Majority, Culture

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• I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Rights, Racism

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• I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

  Peter Singer

  America, Going Away, United States

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• The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Party, Media, America

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• I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society.

  Donna Shalala

  Sex, Fun, Race

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• European society has always been divided into classes in a way that American society never has been. A European writer considers himself to be part of an old and honorable tradition--of intellectual activity, of letters--and his choice of a vocation does not cause him any uneasy wonder as to whether or not it will cost him all his friends. But this tradition does not exist in America.

  James A. Baldwin

  Class, America, Choices

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• Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest achievement. We have to turn that around.

  Jewell Jackson McCabe

  People, Achievement, Black

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• La cuestión básica de una sociedad estadounidense que sea justa, que ofrezca oportunidades a todos, está siendo sustituida hoy en día por la percepción correcta de que vivimos en una economía amañada, en la que no importa lo duro que hayas trabajado, el resultado será que todos los ingresos irán a parar a la gente de arriba. Esto está provocando mucha frustración y enfado, y la gente quiere cambios fundamentales en nuestra forma de hacer economía y crecer.

  Bernie Sanders

  Frustration, Opportunity, Issues

  "Bernie Sanders on America’s ‘grotesquely unfair’ society". Interview with Jim Tankersley, www.washingtonpost.com. July 16, 2015.

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• The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.

  Cornel West

  Running, Mean, Self

  Fuente: articles.latimes.com

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• El racismo es tan extremo y tan omnipresente en nuestra sociedad estadounidense que ningún individuo negro vive en un ambiente de libertad.

  Margaret Walker

  Racism, Atmosphere, Black

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• It is clear to me that the racism was on the other foot, that really, society in Europe was much more racist - vis-à-vis Arabs at least and black Africans - than American society.

  Michael Scheuer

  Europe, Feet, Racism

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Whether or not you liked George W. Bush, there was no doubt about what position he was going to take, and that's what endeared him to a significant segment of American society.

  Frank Luntz

  Doubt, Significant, Position

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• I think the structures of exclusion are more systematically built up in American society, for example, so that young girls interested in science eventually lose their confidence over time. The structures of exclusion work against them. We have other structures of exclusion in India, but not around modern scientific knowledge.

  Vandana Shiva

  Girl, Thinking, India

  Fuente: scottlondon.com

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• Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous. Now it's too complex, it's a mix. Different cultures in collision. I think it starts to be necessary to have a government institution to deal with cultural affairs.

  Gilberto Gil

  Thinking, Government, Care

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• Sólo las élites de los medios de comunicación fuera de contacto piensan que los mayores problemas que enfrenta América - usted sabe esto, esto es de lo que hablan, frente a la sociedad estadounidense de hoy es que hay 11 millones de inmigrantes ilegales que no tienen estatus legal. Y, también piensan que la cosa más grande, y usted sabe esto, no es nuclear, y no es ISIS, no es Rusia, no es China, es el calentamiento global.

  Donald Trump

  Pensamiento, Rusia, Isis

  Discurso de Donald Trump sobre inmigración en Phoenix, Arizona, www.nytimes.com. 1 de septiembre de 2016.

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