#patriot

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea. ↗

— Schuyler Colfax

#idea #lives #martyrs #patriotism #their

Cuando estamos lejos de la patria nunca la recordamos en sus inviernos. La distancia borra las penas del invierno, las poblaciones desamparadas, los niños descalzos en el frío. El arte del recuerdo sólo nos trae campiñas verdes, flores amarillas y rojas, el cielo azulado del himno nacional. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#home #travel #art

Well, yeah," Dovey said. "That's America. We watch shows about rich people's houses and their designer dresses and we drool. It's patriotic. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#design

There are many ways to honor America. This book is mine. I have completed this journey of self-education in the belief that the most terrifying possibility since 9/11 has not been terrorism--as frightening as that is--but the prospect that Americans will give up their rights in pursuing the chimera of security. ↗

— David K. Shipler

#patriotic #political #privacy #rights #security

Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#arabs #authority #compatriots #east #including

What punishment a free people can mete out to its enemy when aroused by unjust attack! Free America was speaking! Mighty America was speaking! I trembled with pride! My America was speaking! ↗

— William Arthur Sirmon

#patriotic #inspirational

If you're ashamed to stand by your colours, you better seek for another flag. ↗

— Mokhtar Dahari

#inspirational #patriotism #inspirational

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

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Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations. ↗

— Zoe Weil

#education #humane #mogo #nation #patriot

To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism. ↗

— G. Edward Griffin

#patriotism #corruption