America · Skopia

Quotes

87

Essay · Political literature

America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without.

Democratic Vistas · 1871

★ 7.6

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

The New Colossus · 1883

★ 7.2

Speech · Political speech

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln

1838

★ 7.0

I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen" Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America.

Langston Hughes

I, Too · 1926

★ 7.0

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Books

9

Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville

1840★ 8.6

The Americans

1958★ 7.1

The Adventures of Augie March

1953★ 7.0

USA Trilogy

John Dos Passos

1936★ 7.0

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Richard Hofstadter

1963★ 6.5

What Hath God Wrought

Daniel Walker Howe

2007★ 6.3

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Songs

6

Mrs. Robinson

Simon & Garfunkel

1968★ 7.9

Rockin' in the Free World

1989★ 7.5

America

Simon & Garfunkel

1968★ 7.3

Whip It

1980★ 6.9

Wabash CannonballRoy Acuff

Wabash Cannonball

1936★ 5.6

You're a Grand Old Flag

1906★ 2.5

Movies

1

The Godfather

Francis Ford Coppola

1972★ 10.0