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• Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

  Karl Kraus

  Country, Ties, Way

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.

  John Bolton

  Patriotic, Careers, Helping

  "Bolton 2012?". Interview with Robert Costa, www.nationalreview.com. June 20, 2011.

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• Question everyone in authority, and see that you get sensible answers to your questions ... questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence. Vow as much love to your country as you like ... but, I implore you, do not forget to question.

  Winifred Holtby

  Country, Mean, Doe

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• Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is best in a nation's character: a commitment to principle, a willingness to sacrifice, a devotion to the community by the choice of the individual. But among its toxic fruits are intolerance, belligerence and blind obedience, perhaps because it blooms most luxuriantly during times of war.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Powerful, War, Character

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• True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice.

  Robert McAfee Brown

  Light, Justice, Way

  Robert McAfee Brown (1984). “Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes”, p.159, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

  Patrick Henry

  Inspirational, Death, Giving

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• Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Matter, Violence, Academic

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• To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Book, Reading

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• No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people.

  Cornelius Nepos

  Government, People, Safe

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• Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

  Mark Twain

  Talking, Humbug, Robbery

  Notebook, 26 May 1896

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• If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Men, White, Giving

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• The President wants to talk about a terrorist named bin Laden. I don't want to talk about bin Laden. I want to talk about a terrorist called Christopher Columbus. I want to talk about a terrorist called George Washington. I want to talk about a terrorist called Rudy Giuliani. The real terrorists have always been the United Snakes of America.

  Malik Zulu Shabazz

  Real, Snakes, America

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• As you probably know, some American politicians and American journalists refer to Washington, DC as the "capital of the free world." But it seems to me that Brussels, which boasts 1,000 years of history and which serves as the capital of Belgium, the home of the European Union, and the headquarters for NATO, this city has its own legitimate claim to that title.

  Joe Biden

  Home, Years, Cities

  "Biden Says Brussels Could Be 'Capital of the Free World'", www.foxnews.com. May 25, 2010.

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• You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. We Negroes are now ready for some of the white meat instead of the dark meat.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Dark, White, Long

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• We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Teaching, Sacrifice, Self

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.111, Oxford University Press

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• My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Law, Slave Girl, Might

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.130

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• Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet has done so through struggle and trial and persecution; and that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.

  Booker T. Washington

  Struggle, Self Confidence, Race

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1977). “The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1903-4”, p.188, University of Illinois Press

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• It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.

  Malcolm X

  Inspiring, Country, Brotherhood

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.433, Ballantine Books

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• I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

  Huey Newton

  People, Revolutionary, Behinds

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• I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.

  Marian Anderson

  Country, People, Belief

  Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.312, University of Illinois Press

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• Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on Olympian heights. There are no impartial observers. Through the destruction, in certain countries, of the greatest of man's literary heritage, through the propagation of false ideas of racial and national superiority, the artist, the scientist, the writer is challenged. The struggle invades the formerly cloistered halls of our universities and other seats of learning. The battlefront is everywhere. There is no sheltered rear.

  Paul Robeson

  Country, Struggle, Artist

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

  Paul Robeson

  Artist, Silence, Citizens

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• African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.

  Julius Nyerere

  Dangerous, Africanism, Julius

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• Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

  John Stark

  Military, Sleep, Patriotic

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• As to those in the World Trade Center...Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. ...If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.

  Ward Churchill

  Towers, World, Sanctuary

  "Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens" by Ward Churchill, www.kersplebedeb.com. September 12, 2001.

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