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Mickey Z
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Monday, January 31, 2005
The Latest Line on the Patriots
“I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.”
-Scott Ritter
“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.”
-George Bernard Shaw
“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”
-Bertrand Russell
“You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
Malcolm X
“To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.”
-George Santayana
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“It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.”
-Voltaire
“If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy.”
-Michael Parenti
(Patriots over Eagles: 34-20)
“Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich
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