America

Famous quotes containing the word america:

“Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of sacralizing person and community.”
—Ivan Illich (b. 1926)

“That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)