The singularity of Islam is its universality. As American citizens and as Muslims, you need to show there is something specific, namely our moral singularity. We believe there is one God and this one God is pushing us to reach universal values by liberating ourselves from our ego and by serving humanity. We must be involved in this by all means necessary, in a nonviolent way, through the legal, media, economic and cultural systems. We cannot achieve this if there is no courage, if we are not ready to sacrifice.
I feel like there is an emphasis against teaching geography in American schools. Americans don't say, "I'm going to Germany. " They say, "I'm going to Europe. "
The second and third generation effect of immigration accounts for only a small portion of the height shortfall between Americans and northern Europeans. Besides the slowdown in American heights began in the 1950s, well before large-scale immigration into the country.
I learned I could be miserable anywhere in the world. I learned I really was an American.
The American government has spent a lot of money trying to reclaim, for example, the Everglades, and to allow the natural vegetation at the coastal areas to be restored because that was part of the vegetation that actually protected the hinterlands.
We have to stand up for these issues when it's tough, and that's what I've done. I did it when I was in the state legislature, sponsoring the Illinois version of the DREAM Act, so that children who were brought here through no fault of their own are able to go to college, because we actually want well-educated kids in our country who are able to succeed and become part of this economy and part of the American dream.
Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved for images of myself. I'd grown up watching a lot of American TV.
There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.
Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.
Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?
Now an American president like [Ronald] Reagan wouldn't have a meeting, wouldn't have a summit. He'd give 'em a warning and then - or [Gerge W. ] Bush would give 'em a warning and then - whatever would happen. Because you don't allow the murder of American citizens. You just don't permit it.
It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
I find American behaviour. . . odd
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal. ' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.
There's some homophobia within black community, but there's some strong homophobia throughout the whole of American society as well, particularly throughout the South to a degree, whether white or black. And since many of us migrated from the South, that could be a strong connection along those lines.
The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.
At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.
The Russians have had and continue to have an active program to undermine American society.
It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.
American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.