American Political Figure

Famous quotes containing the words american, political and/or figure:

    “There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    “...Women’s Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

    “... only
    A figure spun on stirring of the air,
    And so, untrue.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)