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15 Moving Worldly Quotes That Show America Is Not The World

For anyone who isn't American and for anyone who is: here are eye-opening quotes on the world - its wars and diverse realities.
Sade Andria Zabala
August 1, 2016
“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, Unwind
Tagged: Simple, World, Views, Opinion, Black and White, Imperfections
“I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colors and shades I knew existed.”
— Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits
Tagged: World, Life, Depression
“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, The Innocents Abroad
Tagged: Wisdom, wholesome, Views, Men, humanity, Value, Experiences, travel, Learning, Growing Up, different, exchange, abroad, Culture, expanding, expand the mind, Acceptance, improve yourself, Self-awareness, inclusiveness, international
“We are not the borders which separate us.”
— Rachel Nix, America Is Not the World
Tagged: Border, travel, Culture, Immigration, Diversity, Identity
“growing up was often deeply scary. that sometimes, it doesn't involve god.”
— Zean.I, Under The Floods
Tagged: Growing Pains, Adolesence, Losing Hope, Hopelessness, Trauma, War, God
“nothing
feels like loss
anymore.”
— Orooj-e-Zafar, 16.12.2014
Tagged: War, Death, Losing Hope, Hopelessness, Apathy, Empty
“Who fears death when you have nowhere else to go?”
— Allyson Whipple, La Bestia
Tagged: War, Death, Losing Hope, Fear
“Nobody chooses this madness,
it just is and it eats and sings.”
— Jonatan Allin, In The Backwoods
Tagged: War, Death, Losing Hope, Life
“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, The First American
Tagged: War, America, Death
“Though America broke his promise to him, he remained faithful.”
— Michael Campagnoli, FUOCO
Tagged: Immigration, America
“Night is never knowing what's better - sleeping upside down or right-side-up, next to black toes or rotten teeth. ”
— Caitlin McGill, The Girl Who Lives In The Stars
Tagged: Holocaust, World War 2, War, POW, Concentration Camp
“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...

...Paul Walker died
alongside 5,560 extras
in the Philippines. ”
— Chris Campanioni, Paul Walker's Dead: A Love Story
Tagged: Media, Selective Humanity, Bias, Apathy, Death, Current Events, Pop Culture
“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, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Tagged: Stories, Life, World
“while acknowledging we are not alone, we are but one of many places and people.”
— James Stack, Fishing In Lake Victoria
Tagged: World, Culture, Wanderlust, travel, Diversity
“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, The Proposal Of The 51-Starred Flag
Tagged: Flag, America, War, Change, Colonization