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Every time a bookseller hands a child a book, they are doing something that is the heart and soul of the American dream and the American ideal. It's a very sacred tradition.
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Time
Soul
Heart
Book
Every
Every Time
Dream
Something
Sacred
Ideal
Doing
Tradition
Heart And Soul
Very
Child
American
Hands
American Dream
The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.
Jill Robinson
Happy
Commitment
Ending
Responsibility
Dream
Idea
American
American Dream
Happy Ending
Avoidance
We need more leaders in Congress who are willing to bring people together to solve problems and protect the American Dream for all hardworking Kentuckians.
Jim Gray
Together
People
Problems
Congress
Willing
Dream
Solve
More
Leaders
Protect
American
American Dream
Who
Bring
Hardworking
Need
My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.
Joe Lhota
Me
Memories
Better
Father
Dream
He
How
Than
Expected
American
Did
American Dream
Explaining
Earliest
Earliest Memories
I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.
John Edgar Wideman
Faith
Great
Me
History
Struggle
People
Black
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Dream
Abide
Some
Spirit
Seems
More
Great Spirit
Over
Armed
Beyond
Know
Sort
Understand
Answers
Issue
Passive
Been
Years
American
American Dream
American History
Even
Why
Violence
The Democratic Party is always going to be the party of civil rights and fairness - everybody gets an equal, fair shot at the American dream. And we're going to be the party that really fights to protect planet Earth - enjoy whatever time we're going to get!
John Hickenlooper
Time
Rights
Party
Whatever
Enjoy
Everybody
Earth
Dream
Civil
Civil Rights
Fair
Equal
Democratic
Protect
Democratic Party
Fairness
Always
Get
American
Gets
Going
American Dream
Planet
Shot
Planet Earth
Really
Fights
This is the essence of the American Dream - in the land of opportunity, if you have a good idea, create a solid plan, and work hard, you should be able to reinvent yourself and get ahead.
John Hickenlooper
Work
Good
You
Yourself
Work Hard
Opportunity
Solid
Dream
Able
Idea
Get
American
Essence
American Dream
Land
Plan
Create
Should
Hard
Reinvent
Good Idea
I am the American Dream.
John Schnatter
Dream
Am
American
American Dream
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
Challenges
Overcome
Long
Before
Matters
Lasted
Slipping
Dream
Recover
Knowing
How
Came
American
May
American Dream
Where
Much
Requires
Why
Away
In the fields of southwest Iowa, my parents and grandparents worked and sacrificed. Like so many Iowans, the American Dream for them was never about wealth or fame. Their dream was to leave their children and grandchildren a better life, with greater opportunity, than their own.
Joni Ernst
Life
Wealth
Better
Opportunity
Parents
Own
Dream
About
Better Life
Never
Sacrificed
Like
Iowa
Greater
Leave
Fame
Than
American
Southwest
American Dream
Children
Fields
Grandchildren
Them
Worked
Grandparents
Many
On the surface, I've created a good life. I've lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant.
Jose Antonio Vargas
Life
Good
Good Life
Immigrant
Dream
Surface
Am
Still
Undocumented
American
American Dream
Created
Lived
We believe that housing is a power platform to spark great opportunities in people's lives and help them achieve the American dream.
Julian Castro
Great
People
Opportunities
Achieve
Power
Believe
Dream
Housing
American
American Dream
Them
Spark
Help
Platform
Lives
I grew up with a single pair of shoes until I grew into the next size. My parents believed in the American dream and the power of education but didn't have the money to send me to college. I realized early on that I needed to go against the flow and be better than everyone else to support my family.
Julie Sweet
Education
Family
Me
Money
Better
College
Parents
Power
Single
Shoes
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Dream
Support
Until
Go
Up
Than
American
Send
American Dream
Size
Grew
Against
Realized
Next
Pair
Believed
Early
Flow
Needed
There are people a lot smarter, a lot more talented than I am, people who've accomplished things I can only imagine. Often, they started from the most humble of circumstances. That's my message: freedom and opportunity. That's the American Dream.
Kane
Freedom
Humble
People
Opportunity
Circumstances
Dream
More
Only
Smarter
Talented
Most
Message
Am
Accomplished
Lot
Than
American
Often
American Dream
Things
Started
Imagine
If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.
Karin Slaughter
Reading
Ourselves
Bootstraps
Dream
Still
Up
American
American Dream
Which
Pull
If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.
Ken Mehlman
Education
History
You
Quality
Key
Made
Think
Broad
Our
Dream
About
Points
Had
Quality Education
Sure
Because
Access
Making
Very
American
American Century
Stop
American Dream
Decisions
Century
Reasons
Bold
Universal
I don't believe that the American dream should be reserved for those who are born into the elite or somehow have been given an advantage over others. My growing-up experience is probably the most important thing that guides my priorities and my work today.
Ken Salazar
Work
Today
Experience
Important
Believe
Others
Guides
Those
Dream
Born
Somehow
Given
Advantage
Over
Most
Most Important Thing
Priorities
Important Thing
Been
American
American Dream
The Most Important
Should
Who
Reserved
Thing
Elite
I think 'Holler If Ya Hear Me' is almost 'A Raisin in the Sun' 50 years later, with just a different 20-year-old voice speaking the words. But it's about access to the American dream and equal lives having equal value in America. It's still holding a mirror up to us so we can see ourselves.
Kenny Leon
Me
Words
Value
Mirror
Holding
Think
Later
Sun
Ourselves
Dream
See
About
Having
Voice
Almost
Equal
Ya
Access
Still
Hear
Years
Up
America
American
Just
American Dream
Different
Us
Speaking
Lives
Raisin
I used to respect the United States and the American dream. Now I consider the United States the biggest threat to Internet freedom and peace in the world.
Kim Dotcom
Freedom
Respect
Peace
World
Internet
Consider
States
Dream
Threat
American
American Dream
Biggest
Used
Now
United
United States
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
Kit Bond
Death
Family
Wealth
Impossible
Build
Virtually
Dream
Generations
Making
Death Tax
American
American Dream
Tax
American Family
Average
Average American
Across
Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
Larry Bucshon
Education
Food
Family
Me
Class
Power
Our
Mine
States
Kid
Jobs
Dream
Indiana
Table
Rely
Pursue
Throughout
Put
Good-Paying
Like
Provide
American
American Dream
Middle
Middle Class
Realize
Coal
Union
Helped
Many
Homes
Here
I've long been interested in looking at the culture of consumerism and also was interested in this connection between the American dream and the house, and the house being kind of the ultimate expression of self and success.
Lauren Greenfield
Success
Culture
Long
Looking
Kind
Dream
Self
Consumerism
Between
House
Also
Ultimate
Been
American
American Dream
Being
Interested
Connection
Expression
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. In America, possibly because of whatever the American dream is, this happens over and over again. These eras repeat.
Lauren Groff
Life
History
Better
Whatever
Possibly
Dream
See
Better Life
Outside
Idealism
Over
Terms
Because
Eras
Repeat
Norms
America
American
Intense
American Dream
Happens
Again
Create
Really
Cyclical
Societal
Desire
Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Too
Dream
True
California
Came
Southern
Southern California
American
American Dream
Where
I grew up believing in meritocracy and the American dream. My parents came here from India. They had no connections. My brother and I went to public schools, and both of us succeeded.
Leila Janah
Parents
Public Schools
Dream
India
Brother
Both
Had
Schools
Came
Up
American
American Dream
Grew
Public
Succeeded
Us
Connections
Believing
Here
The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.
Marc Veasey
Life
Success
Family
Yourself
Better
Building
Focused
Striving
Dream
Religious
Better Life
Prosecution
Always
American
American Dream
Fleeing
Your
Even
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