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" You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. "
Malcolm X
You
Reality
Blind
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" The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. "
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" I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors to theirs. "
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" But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism. "
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" To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field. "
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" If it's lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one to kill wolves or dogs that are being sicked on little black babies. In fact, it's constitutional. Article Number Two of the constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to own a rifle or a shot gun. "
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" Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism. "
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" Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such. "
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" It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism. "
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" There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism. "
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" I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence. "
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" Peasants, who after the liberation of the country became the masters of their lands and their country under the benevolence of Comrade Kim Il Sung, launched the campaigns for increasing agricultural production and donating cereals out of patriotism, and thus faithfully supported the Party's line of nation building. "
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" You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. "
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" My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand. "
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