Quote by Martin Luther King Jr

“Our country should not be asked, and should not ask of itself, to shoulder the main burden of determining the political realities in any…

— George Kennan

“Was there really something to the obsolete idea of a national character? Some countries just changed tyrants, without changing anything else.”

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

“It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.”

— Anonymous

“Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism.”

— George Orwell

“Patriotism, currently, is nothing but the deadly evolution of narrow minded politics which has distorted language.”

— Nilantha Ilangamuwa

“We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“After all, one wouldn’t want facts and reality—not to mention the national interest—to intrude upon partisan politics, would one?”

— Robert M. Gates

“It is the power of questions that embolden us and keep us as expectant children, all the while developing the power of human consciousness.”

— Dan Sanders

“The substance of patriotism matters more than the symbols.”

— Barack Obama

“Our history deserves honesty and our citizens need it. Without understanding who we really were, we’ll never quite grasp who we have become, leaving…

— Ralph Peters

“I wondered if anyone thought what we were doing was unpatriotic. It was weird. Thinking that to protest was somehow un-American.”

— Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

“In the politics of the every day, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.”

— Timothy Snyder