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His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in this country, so impressed with and loving of its opportunities, but then why, sometimes, did Americans fall short of their best selves?

If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was supposed to keep hold of his land, it'd still be his. If the white man wasn't destined to take this new world, he wouldn't own it now.Here was the true Great Spirit, the divine thread connecting all human endeavor--if you can keep it, it is yours. Your property, slave or continent. The American imperative.

To be black in America is a wild and endless assault on the senses. You can spend every day fighting off your spiritual and intellectual extinction.

The other patrollers were boys and men of bad character; the work attracted a type. In another country they would have been criminals, but this was America.

The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.

[I am] someone who represents a very complex country which insists on being simple-minded. And simplicity, it occurs to me, it has occurred to me more than once, in my somewhat stormy life, simplicity is taken to be a great American virtue, along with sincerity. And the result of this is, if you are simple-minded enough, you can become__ didn__ want to go that far [laughs]. And as long as you__e sincere in what you say, you haven__ got to know what you__e talking about. These are the American virtues__wo of them anyway. One of the results of this is that immaturity is taken to be a virtue too.

Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.

We want to remember that America is at its best when it__ struggling to live up to its stated ideals.

A convergence exists in the search for human excellence on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.

There are seemingly parallel origins of Nature__ God in America and China__ Mandate of Heaven. These twin concepts created socio-political forces for public good and orderly governance, and a unique cultural ethos (related to the Creator of the Universe in America and the Son of Heaven in China) is deeply rooted in both societies. Each concept is physically yet stealthily manifested in the architectural designs of the two capital cities, Beijing and Washington.

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

When God speaks about equity, that choice of word, makes us understand that God is not referring to the leaders of the land or the elite this time around. He is actually talking about how ordinary citizens of the land relate to each other in fairness and impartiality

Trump__ America is not America: not today__ or tomorrow__, but yesterday__.Trump__ America is brutal, perverse, regressive, insular and afraid. There is no hope in it; there is no light in it. It is a vast expanse of darkness and desolation.And that is a vision of America that most of the people in this country cannot and will not abide.

Ladies and gentlemen, let us hear the demand of life and adhere to it. It would do us good

Is it a good idea or not?? Were we build for that or not??We know to much so let's remove us??

It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. That__ what extreme diversity does to us.

Each and every one of us was created to carry out justice, judgment, truth and equity on the earth. It could be in different spheres of life, in various professions or in diverse gifting

Dumbfounded, I stood before the court, trying to figure out if there was a state of being between __uilty_ and __nnocent._ Why were those my only alternatives? I thought. Why couldn__ I be __either_ or __oth_? After a long pause, I finally faced the bench and said, __our Honor, I plead human.