To the America that Can Be
“I pledge allegiance to the America that can be.”
- Hillary Clinton , Nov. 21, 2001
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Where is that Flag???
“Where is the g–dd-mn f–king flag? … I want the g–d-mn f–king flag up every f–king morning at f–king sunrise.”
- Hillary Clinton
U.S. officials shouldn’t wear flag pins
“When I see flags sprouting on official lapels, I think of the time in China when I saw Mao’s Little Red Book on every officials desk, omnipresent and unread.”
- Bill Moyers , February 2003.
Fearing patriotism.
“My skin crawls when I think of the first week after September 11. I was looking out of the window and there were people marching down the street carrying flags. It reminded me of spontaneous, angry Nazis and I thought, ‘Oh, man, we are in a lot of trouble.’”
- Rickie Lee Jones
Journalists shouldn’t wear a flag pin.
“I don’t think it’s appropriate for a journalist to wear a flag. It suggests that you approve of whatever the government is doing at that time.”
- Tom Brokaw
Regretting patriotism.
“Unfortunately, after September 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism . . .”
- Jimmy Carter , August 2006.
U.S. patriotism equals white supremacy.
“U.S. patriotism is inseparable from imperial warfare and white supremacy. U.S. flags are the emblem of the invading war machine in Iraq today. They are the emblem of the occupying power. The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military.”
- Nicholas DeGenova , 2003.
We must destroy nationalism.
“As long as the child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism, education in world-mindedness can produce only precarious results. As we have pointed out, it is frequently the family that infects the child with extreme nationalism. The school should therefore use the means described earlier to combat family attitudes that favor jingoism. . . . We shall presently recognize in nationalism the major obstacle to development of world-mindedness.”
- William Benton , 1946.