I love America more than any other country in this... -James Baldwin

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

James Baldwin , Novelist
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James Baldwin Quotes to Explore

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly....
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up....
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even lab...
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, ...
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them....
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually....
The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopte...
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it....
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all....
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them....

Memorial Day Quotes to Explore

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten....
In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, dem...
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory....
As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars....
The average American is nothing if not patriotic....
Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services ma...
137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day...
On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started pr...
Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead....
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country....