Manifest Destiny Quotes

“You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was.”
― Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny

“As you know, I have always been curious about our immortality... how it feels to live on and on through time....I need speculate no longer, I have sampled eternity in Miss Campbell's fifth period "social studies" class. Three days on the concept of "manifest destiny," Vasile. THREE DAYS. I yearned to stand up, rip her lecture notes from her pallid hands, and scream, 'Yes, America expanded westward! Is that not logical, given that Europeans settled on the Eastern shore? What else were they to do? Advance vainly into the sea?”
― Beth Fantaskey, Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side

“I firmly believe that American society would not endure ten years if subjected to half the trials and tortures we’ve put Natives through. And yet Native peoples have not been utterly destroyed, not by the world’s strongest military. They have not been totally assimilated, not by the world’s largest religion. Native religions are indeed concerned with being a good person, respecting one’s family, ancestors, community, and the Earth—and when these principles are lived, there is great strength.”
― Israel Morrow, Gods of the Flesh: A Skeptic's Journey Through Sex, Politics and Religion

“If you never try, you'll never know. You are what you manifest.”
― Germany Kent

“You will manifest your sacred character when you connect to the Creator.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“God has the Power to make it happen. You have the Authority to make it happen. So stop complaining, get up, & manifest your destiny.”
― Tony Warrick

“The steam trains crossed the country, the gleaming tracks clumsy sutures across wounded miles of stolen land.”
― Libba Bray, Lair of Dreams

“Once you begin to change the way you think, you will begin to inspire innovation that will help you to manifest greatness in your life.”
― Germany Kent

“Powell was first of all a scientist with a deep curiosity about nature, and this curiosity motivated his explorations. Because Powell viewed the landscape and waterscape as a scientist, he realized that the arid West couldn't fit into America's Manifest Destiny dreams, and thus he became a pioneering conservationist.”
― Don Lago, The Powell Expedition: New Discoveries about John Wesley Powell's 1869 River Journey

“What violent, good luck you had. When you bought your home you received stolen property, but the blood had dried, the war forgotten, and it seemed your god himself had granted you this land.”
― Edward J. Santella, American Ghosts

“Only thoughts create. Emotions navigate.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“A land-hungry fledging government attempted to wipe out a people by allowing starvation and disease and hardship to go unchecked. It is frightening to contemplate what might have happened if the American government had possessed the technology for mass extermination of a culture.”
― Gary Paulsen, The Legend of Bass Reeves: Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Valiant Marshal in the West

“If have the gift of prophesy, all wisdom and knowledge and have no love, I have failed to manifest my true soul.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“The manifestation of physical victory was first won spiritually. Prayer is our greatest weapon!”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Both nations have an idea of Manifest Destiny and a concept of the Monroe Doctrine in their ideological arsenal, and both are continental powers with political and cultural influence that extends far beyond their national borders.”
― Patrick Mendis, Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a New Pacific World Order

“The failure to recognize the important role of ethnic culture and experience in shaping biblical interpretation can produce damaging results because it can lead a culturally dominant community to insist that its own interpretations of the Bible are "objective" and "official" to the exclusion of all others. The end result is the tribalization of Jesus in the circumscription of God within the narrow cultural understanding of a single ethnic racial community. Such biblical nationalism is idolatry, and it has historically lead to biblical interpretation that have oppressed Latinas/os, blacks, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and other people of color in the United States.”
― Robert Chao Romero, Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity

“America is the most masculine nation-state that’s ever existed. America is more like Wall Street. Mean as hell, straight, big dick swinging, winner-takes-all mindset.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Manifest Destiny saw Yankee conquest as the inevitable result of a confrontation between enterprise and progress (white) versus passivity and backwardness (Indian, Mexican).”
― Elizabeth Martínez, De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century

“The concept of Manifest Destiny, with its assertion of racial superiority sustained by military power, has defined U.S. identity for 150 years. Only the Vietnam War brought a serious challenge to that concept of almightiness. Bitter debate, moral anguish, images of My Lai and the prospect of military defeat for the first time in U.S. history all suggested that the long-standing marriage of virtue and violence might soon be on the rocks.”
― Elizabeth Martínez, De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century

“Many of us understand that America was built on the brutality of slavery and the looting of Indigenous land. Fewer recognize the colonization of Mexico by the United States as a third pillar in the creation of present-day America. The first colonization of Mexico was of course by Spain. But the second colonization of my people came at the hands of the United States during the Mexican-American War. In school we learn of it as Manifest Destiny, as the God-given right of white people to steal native land. The result was not only the taking of land...but the reluctant acquisition of Mexicans.
...The annexation of Texas into the United States and a dispute over where the Texas border should be drawn gave President James Polk an excuse to loot more Mexican land...There were between 80,000 and 100,000 Mexicans living in the land stolen by the United States. Polk wanted the land, but not the Mexicans on it. They were never immigrants; they didn't come to the United States or cross the border; the border crossed them. After the war, the Mexico-U.S. border was carefully drawn to keep as many Mexicans out as possible, a purpose it still serves. But the border never stopped out roots from growing on both sides.”
― Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

“99 percent of the world's warzones are the legacy of white, western imperialism. Until you get your head around this simple fact, your views, your opinion, your advocacy, all are worthless to the peace struggles of these "westsploited" nations.

In the modern age no other country has wrecked more nations than America. Like father, like son - first it was England, then it's its rebellious runaway child America. That's why China is such an enemy in the westwashed narrative of the world - because when one nation has somewhat maintained an autocratic control over the planet since the 1800s (under the banner of "Manifest Destiny"), it would never want that control be undermined by another budding power - particularly when that power is far superior in infrastructure. Sure, the state of China tries to influence every move of its people, that's the first unwritten rule in the handbook of "democracy" - but Uncle Sam has been manipulating the moves of every single state for over two hundred years. Now tell me, which state should you be more cautious of?

No country is free from human rights violation, but America's share in global transgressions is right at the very top. America is the top exporter of humanitarian crisis in the world, and as such, US is the least qualified nation to be the moral guardian on anything.

It doesn't matter whether you are white, colored or martian - denial never solves nothing. To treat a disease we must first acknowledge the disease. And what is the disease? Is it white people - is it whiteness? No - whiteness is not the disease, but white imperialism is. And how do you treat this disease? You gotta strip yourself of all the privileges of skin, and make yourself one with the world - you gotta denounce the privilege of your whiteness and embrace the responsibility of your humanness. Only then, shall there be peace in the world - only then, shall there be integration - only then, shall there be a civilized world to begin with.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“And I grew up believing these myths of manifest destiny and exceptionalism, the idea that I could do or be anything that I ever dreamed of, and assumed it was true of everyone else if they only did right and tried hard.”
― D. L. Mayfield

“If You Want A Blessings, You Must First Be A Blessing!”
― Constance Delores Burrell, KYNG SUPA NOVA'S ADVENTURES OPERATION COVID-19: WITH FAMILY WE CAN CONQUER ALL

“Charlie, did you know that Haiti's slave revolution is the only one that has ever won back its freedom? They beat the French back so many times and so badly those Frenchmen ended up just selling Louisiana to America along with all the gateways to the west. All so the French didn't have to go back and fight that little island again. Without Haiti, America wouldn't be America, y'know, Manifest Destiny and all that. Haiti changed the trajectory of the world.”
― Cebo Campbell, Sky Full of Elephants

“Tyrants come, tyrants go, both foreign and domestic, ancient civilizations endure political upheaval like a bleep in the continuum, whereas, destiny manifested on patchwork history and bootleg culture, collapse into obsolescence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“At the end of the century, fascism leaves no lasting mark on thousand year old civilizations, it's only the adolescent countries like the US that get wiped out of existence.

Tyrants come, tyrants go, both foreign and domestic, ancient civilizations endure political upheaval like a bleep in the continuum, whereas, destiny manifested on patchwork history and bootleg culture, collapse into obsolescence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“When Destiny Turns To Dust (Sonnet 2406)

At the end of the century,
fascism leaves no lasting mark
on thousand year old civilizations,
it's only the adolescent countries like
the US that get wiped out of existence.

Tyrants come, tyrants go,
both foreign and domestic,
ancient civilizations endure political
upheaval like a bleep in the continuum,

whereas, destiny manifested on patchwork history
and bootleg culture, collapse into obsolescence.

So the world continues, culture continues,
reformation continues, even better without
the parasitic powers of world politics -
civilization thrives for they're never aloof,
but ever entwined with Nature's dynamics.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“At the end of the century, fascism leaves no lasting mark on thousand year old civilizations, it's only the adolescent countries like the US that get wiped out of existence, destiny manifested on patchwork history and bootleg culture, collapse into obsolescence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“The painting that took up all of my thoughts is called American Progress, by John Gast, and represents the idea of Manifest Destiny. I spend a lot of time thinking about that idea, and can only say that if this country’s Destiny is Manifest, then it is a festering sort of Destiny, and no God worthy of the name would ever ordain such a manifestly corrupt and evil scheme.”
― Lloyd Mullins, A Rare and Dangerous Beast

“What many call luck, fate, or coincidence is synchronicity in disguise. To the awakened mind, nothing happens by chance. The aware seeker understands that when the mind-soul is ready, the manifested reality aligns accordingly.”
― Anthon St. Maarten