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  • The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.

    Stars   Sea   Long  
  • When Fascism comes to America, it will be called anti-Fascism!

  • The Supreme Court of the United States of America will never under any circumstances allow anyone to be stripped of their citizenship because they burned the American flag. And if you don't believe that, you haven't been reading constitutional law for the past seventy years.

    Reading   Believe   Past  
    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • [Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag.

    Rights   Effort   Scary  
  • That's what makes America great; the fabric and the core of our beliefs and our being is we wrap ourselves around diversity. We say that the American flag represents our right to be free in every aspect of what that is, and every veteran who fought, fought for that freedom. So what we have to do is realize it's not a choice between the country and racial justice; it's about what we believe in at the core of our being, and that's that we are free.

    Source: www.glamour.com
  • Gos bless America, my home sweet home.

    "God Bless America" (song) (1939) See Peeke 1
  • I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour. I want to cross one last finish line as my wife and my ten children applaud, and then I want to lie down in a field of those famous French sunflowers and gracefully expire, the perfect contradiction to my once anticipated poignant early demise.

    Stars   Children   Lying  
    "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life". Book by Lance Armstrong, 2001.
  • Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.

  • As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little [American flag] lapel pins.

    Attitude   Issues   Flags  
    "Extended Interview: Brit Hume". "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.
  • Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It despises people of foreign birth. It has specifically blamed homosexuals, feminists and the American Civil Liberties Union. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder. Whom are we calling terrorists here?

    "And our flag was still there" by Barbara Kingsolver, www.sfgate.com. September 25, 2001.
  • My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war.

    Daughter   Block   War  
    Katha Pollitt (2007). “Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time”, p.46, Random House
  • The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.

    William McKinley's remarks on 1900 US campaign poster of McKinley and his choice for second term Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, July 12, 1900.
  • I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

  • Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.

    Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1863). “My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington”, p.4
  • The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.

  • God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her through the night with a light from above.

    Night   Light   Land  
    "God Bless America" (song) (1939) See Peeke 1
  • Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?

    Patriotic   Flags   Wave  
  • When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.'

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • God bless America, land that I love, Stand beside her, and guide her, Through the night, with the light from above, From the mountains, to the prairies To the oceans, white with foam God bless America, my home sweet home, God bless America! My Home Sweet Home!

    Sweet   Ocean   Home  
    "God Bless America" (song) (1939) See Peeke 1
  • Just a rock, a dome of snow, the deep blue sky, and a hunk of orange-painted metal from which a shredded American flag cracked in the wind. Nothing more. Except two tiny figures walking together those last few feet to the top of the Earth.

    Nature   Travel   Orange  
    Peter Potterfield, Tom Hornbein (2003). “Everest”, p.141, The Mountaineers Books
  • One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

    Morning   Night   Flags  
    Kirk Varnedoe, Jasper Johns (1996). “Jasper Johns: A Retrospective”
  • However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch – American flag place mats, patriotic “body crystals,” flag stickers you attach to your skin. Personally, I’m small-minded and literal enough that I see the two symbols as contradictory, especially in a time of war. But I fear that the consumer who buys a Confederate flag coffee cup, which she will then put on her American flag place mat, is the sort of sophisticated thinker who is open-minded enough that she is capable of hating blacks and Arabs at the same time.

    Hate   War   Coffee  
  • I have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea overwrought. But now I believe there really is such a threat - and it will come draped not in an American flag, but in the name of tolerance and health.

    Believe   Names   Ideas  
    "Tolerance, Health and Fascism". townhall.com. August 27, 2013.
  • For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity.

  • When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.

  • We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige

    Respect   Flags   Earth  
  • God bless America, land that I love.

    Land   America   Berlin  
    "God Bless America" (song) (1939) See Peeke 1
  • If you don't want an American flag flying at your school, why do you live in the USA?

    School   Usa   Flying  
  • The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.

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