15 Moving Worldly Quotes That Show America Is Not The World

15 quotes

For anyone who isn't American and for anyone who is: here are eye-opening quotes on the world - its wars and diverse realities.

“We are not the borders which separate us.”

— Rachel Nix, amazon.com

Tagged: Border, travel, Culture, Immigration, Diversity

“growing up was often deeply scary. that sometimes, it doesn't involve god.”

— Zean.I, amazon.com

Tagged: Growing Pains, Adolesence, Losing Hope, Hopelessness, Trauma

“From the Fast and the Furious to the disappearance of Flight 470 starring unidentified passengers, 33 gone in northwest Kenya post-civil war violence in Libya, Syria the Iraq insurgency, the insurgency in Ukraine, Pakistan, Nigeria a multitude in Mexico made anonymous in the movies, all of us... ...…”

— Chris Campanioni, amazon.com

Tagged: Media, Selective Humanity, Bias, Apathy, Death

“Nobody chooses this madness, it just is and it eats and sings.”

— Jonatan Allin, amazon.com

Tagged: War, Death, Losing Hope, Life

“nothing feels like loss anymore.”

— Orooj-e-Zafar, amazon.com

Tagged: War, Death, Losing Hope, Hopelessness, Apathy

“beyond the horizon war machines of my countrymen rain fire and death down on the homes of men, their engines roaring "freedom" across the land to end terror, never uttering the word "empire," and there is nothing that I can do.”

— Kelly Talbot, amazon.com

Tagged: War, America, Death

“Night is never knowing what's better - sleeping upside down or right-side-up, next to black toes or rotten teeth.”

— Caitlin McGill, amazon.com

Tagged: Holocaust, World War 2, War, POW, Concentration Camp

“Who fears death when you have nowhere else to go?”

— Allyson Whipple, amazon.com

Tagged: War, Death, Losing Hope, Fear

“Though America broke his promise to him, he remained faithful.”

— Michael Campagnoli, amazon.com

Tagged: Immigration, America

“How we so fear change, shifting numbers, so cling to old money, archaic language, worn-out tendencies and muddled colonies, that we stall and maw, hem and haw, defend Old Glory like she's more than fabric running with the combination of wars.”

— Leah Angstman, amazon.com

Tagged: Flag, America, War, Change, Colonization

“I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colors and shades I knew existed.”

— Katie McGarry, amazon.com

Tagged: World, Life, Depression

“while acknowledging we are not alone, we are but one of many places and people.”

— James Stack, amazon.com

Tagged: World, Culture, Wanderlust, travel, Diversity

“In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.”

— Neal Shusterman, amazon.com

Tagged: Simple, World, Views, Opinion, Black and White

“Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Stories, Life, World

“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

Tagged: Wisdom, wholesome, Views, Men, humanity