"My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors at my high school that I really got my roots in being a black American, which is a distinctly different identity and experience."
Amanda Seales
Delivered: June 25, 2020
"Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice."
Moshe Dayan
Delivered: June 2, 2020
"I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar."
Billy Idol
Delivered: June 3, 2020
"I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal."
Edward Snowden
Delivered: June 18, 2020
"The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much."
Jon Meacham
Delivered: June 21, 2020
"High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream."
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Delivered: June 15, 2020
"I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look."
Louise Mensch
Delivered: June 4, 2020
"I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that."
Liam Neeson
Delivered: June 6, 2020
"Universal basic income is not a solution in search of a problem - it is the obvious solution that has been in front of us for years. It only requires us to have the vision, empathy and courage to adopt it for the American people before it is too late."
Andrew Yang
Delivered: June 7, 2020
"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
Delivered: June 14, 2020
"The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests."
Charley Reese
Delivered: June 16, 2020
"As a Cherokee, I can attest to the fact that Native Americans have been on the losing side of history. Our rights have been infringed upon, our treaties have been broken, our culture has been stolen, and our tribes have been decimated at the hands of our own United States government."
Markwayne Mullin
Delivered: July 1, 2020
"The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals."
Leonard Boswell
Delivered: June 19, 2020
"America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together, producing a new, American identity. And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a national myth, it has tenaciously informed the America's collective imagination."
Ivan Krastev
Delivered: June 10, 2020
"Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts."
Octavio Paz
Delivered: June 22, 2020
"When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable."
William J. Clinton
Delivered: June 24, 2020
"I left my husband a year after 9/11. Not because he was an American and I an Egyptian, nothing to do with culture or religion, nothing to do with 9/11. We brought out the worst in each other. But before we separated, we visited N.Y.C. one more time together for a friend's engagement, and we went to pay our respects at the site of the attacks."
Mona Eltahawy
Delivered: June 8, 2020
"The most powerful nation on earth should be able to pass a fair, effective immigration law that combines compassion with responsibility and does not injure hard working Americans who are taxed up to here."
Bill O'Reilly
Delivered: June 27, 2020
"A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as there is. I love this country. It's been very, very good to me. And it will be good to anybody if they are willing to give of themselves."
Jimmy Dean
Delivered: June 30, 2020
"There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream."
Archibald MacLeish
Delivered: June 9, 2020
"We didn't crumble after 9/11. We didn't falter after the Boston Marathon. But we're America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line."
Joe Biden
Delivered: June 11, 2020
"I'm a firm believer in karma. By doing good, good things eventually find you. I don't have an American Express Black Card, but I like to think that I would if I could fill it with karma points."
Chieh Huang
Delivered: June 12, 2020
"I suggest that ten thousand Negroes march on Washington, D.C., the capital of the Nation, with the slogan, 'We loyal Negro American citizens demand the right to work and fight for our country.'"
A. Philip Randolph
Delivered: June 28, 2020
"Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans."
Nydia Velazquez
Delivered: June 29, 2020
"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."
Rita Mae Brown
Delivered: June 20, 2020
"I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family."
Sanford I. Weill
Delivered: June 26, 2020
"Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation."
Gouverneur Morris
Delivered: June 5, 2020
"If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest."
Thomas Jefferson
Delivered: June 23, 2020
"A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity."
Dan Rather
Delivered: June 13, 2020
"The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history."
Mike Fitzpatrick
Delivered: June 17, 2020