Words matter. These are the best Un-American Quotes from famous people such as Eric Swalwell, Franklin Foer, Cedric Richmond, Steve Rushin, Howard Fast, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When athletes take a knee during the National Anthem, we must ignore President Trump’s absurd claim that they’re ‘un-American’ and instead understand that it’s very American to peacefully protest systemic injustice.
It’s very un-American to say nice things about elites. Elites are often terrible. It’s not like we’ve ever had a perfect set of benevolent democratic elites ruling over our country. But the fact of the matter is that a representative system of democracy delegates power to elites.
Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.
Quitting has always been the worst possible thing you can do in sports. It’s downright un-American.
I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee.
I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!
For many Americans the term ‘speech code’ sends shivers up the spine. Yet these noxious and un-American codes have become commonplace on college campuses across the United States.
It was not a secret, then or now, that there is something vaguely un-American about forcing your child to be really good at classical music performance.
You can say that your ideas are bad for America, and frankly un-American, but don’t say the person is a traitor.
When you become a citizen, you are an American and questioning somebody’s Americanness because they disagree with you – is about one of the most un-American things I can think of.
Conservatives may worship Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand,’ but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this ‘socialism’ is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it ‘un-American’ is a smear.
A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.
Limiting the ability of the people to peacefully organize and partake in direct action to fight against persecution and discrimination is not only barred by the U.S. Constitution but is fundamentally un-American.
To try to preemptively shut down debate with name-calling is profoundly un-American and will harm this country.
Making sweeping over-generalizations is classically un-American.
I think other people like me can have their minds changed once they meet gay couples and families. We shouldn’t ban love or marriage for a happy couple. That is un-American!
We’ve got to do more to ensure that people who work full time are not living in poverty and that the massive gap between rich and poor – which is fundamentally un-American, as far as I’m concerned – is somehow dealt with.
The only people I’ve ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.
Immigrants have always come into the country with low levels of education. Whether it’s the Irish or Italian or Polish, here is the land of opportunity. It’s where people come in at the bottom and build themselves up. To try to bring in people who have already made it is un-American.
I did my Doctorate on the House Un-American Activities Committee’s effect on the American theater.
I’m often loose with my tongue. I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American or Communist, but I meant no harm by it.
Solitude is un-American.
Squelching debate by branding it un-American is dishonest, dangerous, and, in itself, hateful.
It is un-American, it is unjust to target any group of folks whether they are African-American, Hispanic, poor or elderly when it comes to access to the vote.
Putting pressure on grand juries to indict in my view is un-American. A grand jury should be allowed to be fair and impartial. They shouldn’t have people yelling and screaming.
The Iraq War. No one took to the streets over it. It certainly would have been appropriate. If anybody even hinted we should… you were called un-American and not supporting the troops.
There are many examples in our history of overheated rhetoric leading to fear and prejudice and government overreach. My own grandfather, a sociologist, was dragged in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He said he wasn’t a Communist and explained that American Negroes were patriots like everyone else.
I don’t believe the federal government should be snooping into American citizens’ cell phones without a warrant issued by a federal judge. You cannot give the federal government extraordinary powers to eavesdrop without a warrant. It’s simply un-American.
I don’t care if you’re Republican or a Democrat or a Liberal, getting crucified for the way you think or believe, obviously if it’s not hurting anyone, it’s just Un-American.
Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.
This is America, man. To not have football would be un-American. It’s part of our society, like soccer in Brazil.
It’s almost un-American to say that you want to change football.
This business of demonizing or pre-defining people by the way they look, the religion that they practice, or where they came from is not only un-American but it’s going to hurt America.
While the debate over banned books usually seems to happen just outside the gates of government, it takes on a new danger and urgency when legislators get involved. Their actions cause voices to be silenced both inside and outside the books. That’s un-American.
I don’t think we should ever ban anyone based on their religion. That is un-American. It is not good. What the president is doing, everybody needs to realize that what he’s doing is saying, ‘Let’s take a step back. Let’s temporarily pause.’
Much as I disliked the un-American idea of marrying a lady with a dowry, I must admit that little Mrs. Godfrey’s little private income put everything in a faintly different light.
I don’t care if you’re a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.
The suspicion that immigrants are not to be trusted or are unpatriotic is not just wrong; it is un-American. And dangerous.
It’s not only inhumane to treat Puerto Ricans as second-class citizens. It’s deeply un-American.
Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?
