Can do Quote by Utah Phillips Download Open image “The most un-American thing you can do is to stifle dissent” — Utah Phillips ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Can do Dissent
I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share
There is nothing more American than raising your voice in protest, and there is nothing more un-American than a government that attempts to hit the mute button when it doesn't like what it hears. — Witold Walczak Copy Share
“Q: What can people do to defend their civil liberties? Phillips: I'm a pacifist, but the most American thing you can do is to dissent, and the most un-American thing you can do is to stifle dissent. When you feel threatened by the suppression of your liberties, you exercise them to the nth degree, you scream your head off every… — Utah Phillips Copy Share
[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
This is America. Dissenting voices will continue to voice their dissent. Because they've read the operating instructions for the United States of America, and… — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
There is a certain tendency on the part of some Americans to treat the UN as a multilateralism à la carte where you pick… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
You must know the difference between dissent from the Iraq war and the war on terror and undermining it. And any American that undermines… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
There are very significant ways around America on how to break its grip, which is, of course, a way to exclude dissenting voices before… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
“I wondered if anybody thought what we were doing was unpatriotic. It was weird. Thinking that to protest was somehow un-American. That was bullshit. This was very American, goddamn All-America.” — Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely Copy Share
With the Michael Moore movie, certain conservative talk show hosts call him un-American. Him and anybody else who says anything about the war... To question your country's policy, especially in a war that kills people, is definitely not un-American. It's probably the most patriotic thing you can do. — John Fogerty Copy Share
You need people with the courage to stand up and voice their opposition without being labeled unpatriotic. — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
“Yes, the long memory is the most radical idea in this country. It is the loss of that long memory which deprives our people… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions. — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
You are about to be told one more time that you are America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they do to… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend,… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system. It's our… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
“These kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
I said, "OK, Ammon [Hennacy], I will try that." He said, "You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always let it keep rolling. — Terrence Malick Copy Share Image
The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice.… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
If I had a million dollars, I just wouldn't just completely set back. I'd have to get out there and show my face to… — Muddy Waters Copy Share Image
Anybody can be Prince Charming one day a year, with the dinner and the flowers and all that. But you know what impresses me?… — Ryan Howard Copy Share Image
And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The amount of things you can do with a kettlebell is unsurpassed by any other training equipment - dumbbells, resistance machines, free weights. — Laird Hamilton Copy Share Image
It's nice when you've done enough movies that you can do your own anthology. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
If people don't have their own vision, all they can do is 'sign-up' for someone else's. — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than… — James Cook Copy Share Image
...what I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the mess. That's… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your voice in… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis. — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
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