America Quote by Henry Louis Gates

“Patriotism can results in racism”

— Irfan Ullah Hosain

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

— Henry Louis Gates

“Patriotism is racism for the modern era.”

— Michel Templet

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

— Charles de Gaulle

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

— Vic Snyder

Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish…

— Leo Tolstoy

Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't…

— Max Eastman

Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his…

— Robert A. Heinlein

There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.

— Ron Paul

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support…

— Benjamin Rush

By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the…

— Leo Tolstoy

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...

— George Bernard Shaw