Nationalism Quotes - Page 15

• There's a difference between a Nazi and a German.

  Samuel Fuller

  Differences, Nazi

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• The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.

  Malcolm X

  Philosophy, Mean, Men

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and, in particular, that ethnic boundaries within a given state a contingency already formally excluded by the principle in its general formulation should not separate the power holders from the rest.

  Ernest Gellner

  Cutting, Political, Principles

  Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly (2008). “Nations and Nationalism”, p.1, Cornell University Press

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• A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Party, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Cells, Wind, Creative

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as to what loyalty to our country demands, and an intolerant majority, swayed by passion or by fear, may be prone in the future, as it has been in the past, to stamp as disloyal opinions with which it disagrees.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Loyalty, Country, Freedom

  "Schaefer v. United States, 251 U.S. 466". Dissenting opinion, 1920.

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• The very nature of economics is rooted in nationalism. ... It [was] developed ... in the hope of throwing light upon questions of policy. But policy means nothing unless there is an authority to carry it out, and authorities are national.

  Joan Robinson

  Mean, Light, Economics

  Joan Robinson (1962). “Economic philosophy”, p.124, Transaction Publishers

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• Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.

  Ernest Gellner

  Doe, Tribalism, Dare

  Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly (2008). “Nations and Nationalism”, p.84, Cornell University Press

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• Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.

  Benjamin Rush

  Country, School, Doe

  Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College

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• Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

  Robert Runcie

  Loyalty, Spring, War

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• Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Wall, Loneliness, Race

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• Our success in America will involve two circles: Black Nationalism and Islam–it will take BN [Black Nationalism] to make our people conscious of doing for self & then Islam will provide the spiritual guidance. BN [Black Nationalism] will link us to Africa and Islam will link us spiritually to Africa, Arabia & Asia.

  Malcolm X

  Spiritual, Self, Circles

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• I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.

  Juan Cole

  War, Iraq, Administration

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• Zionism has gained my full sympathy and I appreciate
  it much higher than what is called nationalism in modern
  France. It is a progressive movement, a reawakening,
  of which I expect a lot for the entire civilization.

  Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

  Civilization, Appreciate, Movement

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• Those policies [of Jean-Marie Le Pen ]I find repellent. I believe many people right across consist the world do. There is no future in that type of narrow minded racism and nationalism.

  Rachel Maddow

  Believe, Racism, People

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• The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism … In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Epic, Black, Heirs

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• Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis -- German National Socialism.

  Hermann Goring

  Party, Class, Goering

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles of individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises in opposition to his government.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Government, Principles, Morality

  Jacob G. Hornberger (1997). “The tyranny of gun control”

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• I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I feel no particular need to demonize it.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Israel, Tea, Needs

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• A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Community, Characteristics, Stills

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.

  David Bailey

  Thinking, Ideas, Doe

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• The challenge is whether China as a rising country, the United States as the superpower, can develop a cooperative relationship in this period before nationalism becomes so dominant in China as a substitute for communism, and a kind of self-righteous isolationism in this country that substitutes China for the Soviet Union.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Self, Challenges

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• No Irish nationalist could support any treaty which institutionalizes British government claims to a part of Irish national territory. Indeed, the term - 'constitutional nationalism'- used by Mr.Mallon (SDLP) and his colleagues to describe their political philosophy is a contradiction in terms. The only constitutional nationalist in Ireland today is Sean McBride. He puts his nationalism within a framework of Irish constitutionality. Mr. Mallon, however, puts his within the framework of British constitutionality. Irish nationalism within British constitutionality is a contradiction in terms.

  Gerry Adams

  Philosophy, Government, Support

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• Even if I have to face death a thousand times for the sake of my Motherland, I shall not be sorry. Oh, Lord! Grant me a hundred births inIndia. But grant me this, too, that each time I may give up my life in the service of the Motherland.

  Ram Prasad Bismil

  Inspiring, Giving Up, Sorry

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• Britain needs a real push. It needs nationalism. The sort of spirit that comes during a war. It needs people really to want to see the UK sitting again, maybe not as a colonial power, but as an economic power.

  Ratan Tata

  Encouragement, Real, War

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