North America and The Caribbean
- Canada -
- Prime Minister - Sir John A. Macdonald, Prime Minister of Canada (1878–1891)
- Costa Rica - Bernardo Soto Alfaro, President of Costa Rica (1885–1890)
- Mexico - Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (1884–1911)
- United States - Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (1885–1889)
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“The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.”
—Ivan Illich (b. 1926)
“We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it—to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
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—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)