Flags Quotes - Page 19

• In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the editor.

  Michelle Malkin

  Suicide, Writing, Gun

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• If a thought or an action does not feel right, it is a caution flag from the soul.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Positive, Law Of Attraction, Soul

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• What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal. Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage. Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Spiritual, Dog, Mean

  "The Case for Reparations". www.theatlantic.com. June 2014.

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• I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.

  John Wayne

  Honest, Patriot, Goodness

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.11, Taylor Trade Publications

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• We have way better nazi flags than THAT one.

  Burnie Burns

  Way, Nazi

  Twitter post from May 7, 2012

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• When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready!

  Greg Kinnear

  Kids, Ideas, Order

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• Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow

  Stars, Stripes, Civil War

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1863). “My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington”, p.4

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• The point I wish to make is that those things cause the soldier to remember that the people at home are behind him. You do not know how much that is going to mean to us who are going abroad. You do not know how much that means to any soldier who is over there carrying the flag for his country. That is the point which should be uppermost in the minds of those who are working for the soldier.

  John J. Pershing

  Country, Military, Home

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• However it may be for others, for us of the Citizen Army there is but one ideal - an Ireland ruled, and owned, by Irish men and women, sovereign and independent from the centre to the sea, and flying its own flag outward over all the oceans.

  James Connolly

  Ocean, Independent, Army

  James Connolly (1988). “Collected Works: Labour and Easter Week”

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• Here Eddie, hold the flag while I putt out.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf

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• I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone can be.

  Tom Peters

  American Flag, Drawers, Pins

  Source: iveybusinessjournal.com

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• Revenge in the hands of your enemies is a loaded gun. You can beg them for mercy, wave the white flag of surrender, but the only true elixir for the vitriol they bestow is a measure of hatred dispensed of your own.

  Addison Webster Moore

  Revenge, Gun, White

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• ...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.

  Howard Zinn

  Song, Blessed, America

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• Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred? These ways of thinking - cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on - have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power.

  Howard Zinn

  Religious, Thinking, Racism

  Howard Zinn (2013). “A Power Governments Cannot Suppress”, p.143, City Lights Books

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• Activist judges and local officials in some parts of the country are not letting up in their efforts to redefine marriage for the rest of America-and neither should defenders of traditional marriage flag in their efforts.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Gay, America

  George W. Bush “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Book 2, July 1 to September 30, 2004”, Government Printing Office

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• Every time I hit a shot, I feel like I am shaking hands with the flag stick.

  Moe Norman

  Hands, Sticks, Shots

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• The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and the gods. They were the carriers of flags of truce. At the court of heaven they presented the cause of man, and upon the labor of the deceived they lived.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Heaven, Ignorant

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4144, Library of Alexandria

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• I have a great respect for the flag, (but) if the government passed a law saying that I had to pledge allegiance to the flag, I don't think I would do it. I've always felt that I lived in a country...where if I wanted to worship God as a Baptist, I could do so. If I were an atheist, I could be one. If I wanted to be a Catholic but was born a Jew, there's no condemnation...from a government authority.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Atheist, Thinking

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• There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Home, Moscow, Might

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• Well, start waving and yelling, because it is the so-called Oxford comma and it is a lot more dangerous than its exclusive, ivory-tower moniker might suggest. There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and people who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken. Oh, the Oxford comma. Here, in case you don't know what it is yet, is the perennial example, as espoused by Harold Ross: "The flag is red, white, and blue." So what do you think of it? Are you for or against it? Do you hover in between?

  Lynne Truss

  Taken, Thinking, Ivory

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• I always carried a small American flag red white and blue with me so people would know I was from America.

  George Foreman

  Blue, White, America

  Interview with Dave Zirin, www.counterpunch.org. November 7, 2003.

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• Throw your children in the surf and let them get used to it. They have to learn all about rips and tides and swimming between the flags and all that sort of stuff. I know that sounds ridiculous but it's true.

  Eric Bana

  Children, Rip, Swimming

  "Eric Bana Interview, Hanna". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. April 2011.

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• We'll have freedom, love and health/When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth.

  Joe Hill

  Red Flags, Flying, Workers

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• The word impossible does not exist for me. I've got a lot of signal flags in my flag bag, but there is not a white one in there. I am going to keep fighting until the day I die - and might keep on fighting afterward ... depends on where I am.

  Ted Turner

  Success, Fighting, White

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• Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!

  Thomas Campbell

  Years, Sea, Battle

  Thomas Campbell (1854). “The Pleasures of Hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and othe Poems: To which are added Collin's and Gray's poetical works Seventh Thousand”, p.93

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