Mother Country Quotes

• My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Country

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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  Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

  Mother Teresa

  Country, Teaching, People

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.98, Image

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• The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

  William Ross Wallace

  Rocks, Hands, World

  William Ross Wallace, “The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Is The Hand That Rules The World”

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• God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mothers Day, God, Christian

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• 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Country, Patriotic

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• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom

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• This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

  Richard V. Allen

  Mother, Country, Blood

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• A moss which leaves its ocean becomes pale and dries up and a man which leaves his mother country is a moss which leaves it ocean!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mother, Country, Ocean

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• Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

  Lord Acton

  Mother, Country, Powerful

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• The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity or hypocrisy can be fairly laid to their charge. Never from their lips was heard one syllable of attempt to justify the institution of slavery. They universally considered it as a reproach fastened upon them by the unnatural step-mother country and they saw that before the principles of the Declaration of Independence slavery, in common with every other mode of oppression, was destined sooner or later to be banished from the earth.

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, Mother, Hypocrisy

  "An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport". Book by John Quincy Adams (p.50), 1837.

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• The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves.

  Frantz Fanon

  Country, Mother, Writing

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

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• Colinialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natrual resources, which it extracts, and exports to meet the needs of the mother country's industries, thereby allowing certain sectors of the colony to become relatively rich. But the rest of the colony follows its path of under-development and poverty, or at all events sinks into it more deeply.

  Frantz Fanon

  Mother, Country, Light

  Frantz Fanon (1963). “The Damned”

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• Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Mother, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson (2012). “Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• We will not submit to have our own money taken out of our pockets without our consent; because if any man or any set of men take from us without our consent or that of our representatives one shilling in the pound we have not security for the remaining nineteen. We owe to our mother country the duty of subjects but will not pay her the submission of slaves.

  George Mason

  Mother, Country, Taken

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• A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals--that they can't help but reenact the dash they once made from one land to another, from one faith to another, from one brown mother country into the pale, freckled arms of an imperial sovereign.

  Zadie Smith

  Mother, Country, Land

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.136, Vintage

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• Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Country, Mother, Bird

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• I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.

  David Cronenberg

  Country, Mother, Betrayal

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• The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.

  Gore Vidal

  Mother, Country, America

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• The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

  Frantz Fanon

  Mother, Country, Adoption

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.18, Pluto Press

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• England's always expecting. No wonder they call her the Mother Country

  Fred Trueman

  Mother, Country, England

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• Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.

  George III

  Country, Mother, Mean

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• Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality-finds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

  Frantz Fanon

  Country, Mother, People

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.18, Pluto Press

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• We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.

  George Mason

  Country, Mother, Pay

  Letter to a member of the Brent family, December 6, 1770.

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• We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing liberty.

  George Washington

  Mother, Country, Stars

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• A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.

  Fred Hampton

  Mother, Country, Party

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