nation

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849bb45	The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.	human-rights nations foundations revolt justice-system justification nation	Martin Luther King Jr.
d5078da	"America Is A Gun England is a cup of tea. France, a wheel of ripened brie. Greece, a short, squat olive tree. America is a gun. Brazil is football on the sand. Argentina, Maradona's hand. Germany, an oompah band. America is a gun. Holland is a wooden shoe. Hungary, a goulash stew. Australia, a kangaroo. America is a gun. Japan is a thermal spring. Scotland is a highland fling.	representation patriotism nation	Brian Bilston
1517d13	Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.	silence hammer holes sea nation	Terry Pratchett
9aa869e	The stars and stripes were fluttering bright against the rain, clear blue overhead, and their minds were saying the words before their ears heard them.	flag nation	Laura Ingalls Wilder
a27fb28	...if we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evil.	justice nation	Louis L'Amour
a43717b	the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.	society nation	Tony Judt
a84567d	Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history), the identity of an individual human being as an object for mimetic representation.	identity individual nation	A.S. Byatt
5851d88	Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.	beauty family true-culture universal nation artist	Chaim Potok
1b97904	Is there anything in it glorious and dear for a nation, that is not also glorious and dear for a man? What is freedom to a nation, but freedom to the individuals in it?	nation	Harriet Beecher Stowe
35566b9	One of the things we haven't taught our people as a nation, that this is their country. We haven't told them that this Bahamas belongs to them. Whether it succeeds or fails it is entirely up to them. WE haven't told our people that they are valuable. I sometimes pass little boys playing in the road and I would stop my car and say to them: 'Excuse me baby, do you realize how valuable you are? Do not play in the road, if anything happen to you that is going to hurt us. Because you might be our Prime Minister one day. Iris Adderley, consultant in the Disability Affairs Devision of The Department of Social Services.	feeling-needed my-countrymen sense-of-pride the-bahamas feeling-wanted love-of-country prime-minister valuable patriotism nation self-esteem	Drexel Deal
8235bb1	Kill the heroes and you kill the soul of a nation.	nation	Robert Ferrigno
4df87ea	New laws are always being passed but they alter almost nothing. Their real purpose is, precisely, to engender debate, to give the people of Italy a chance to express a lively opposition to the state so unanimous that it actually creates a supportive atmosphere of unity and national well-being. Everyone feels the state is fleecing them, treating them unfairly, so that feeling cheated by the state - and finding some small ways of cheating the state - turns out to be the cement that binds the nation together. In this way, the state is sacrificed to the idea of the nation.	nation state	Geoff Dyer

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

human-rights nations foundations revolt justice-system justification nation

Martin Luther King Jr.

d5078da

"America Is A Gun England is a cup of tea. France, a wheel of ripened brie. Greece, a short, squat olive tree. America is a gun. Brazil is football on the sand. Argentina, Maradona's hand. Germany, an oompah band. America is a gun. Holland is a wooden shoe. Hungary, a goulash stew. Australia, a kangaroo. America is a gun. Japan is a thermal spring. Scotland is a highland fling.

representation patriotism nation

Brian Bilston

1517d13

Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.

silence hammer holes sea nation

Terry Pratchett

9aa869e

The stars and stripes were fluttering bright against the rain, clear blue overhead, and their minds were saying the words before their ears heard them.

flag nation

Laura Ingalls Wilder

a27fb28

...if we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evil.

justice nation

Louis L'Amour

a43717b

the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

society nation

Tony Judt

a84567d

Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history), the identity of an individual human being as an object for mimetic representation.

identity individual nation

A.S. Byatt

5851d88

Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

beauty family true-culture universal nation artist

Chaim Potok

1b97904

Is there anything in it glorious and dear for a nation, that is not also glorious and dear for a man? What is freedom to a nation, but freedom to the individuals in it?

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

35566b9

One of the things we haven't taught our people as a nation, that this is their country. We haven't told them that this Bahamas belongs to them. Whether it succeeds or fails it is entirely up to them. WE haven't told our people that they are valuable. I sometimes pass little boys playing in the road and I would stop my car and say to them: 'Excuse me baby, do you realize how valuable you are? Do not play in the road, if anything happen to you that is going to hurt us. Because you might be our Prime Minister one day. Iris Adderley, consultant in the Disability Affairs Devision of The Department of Social Services.

feeling-needed my-countrymen sense-of-pride the-bahamas feeling-wanted love-of-country prime-minister valuable patriotism nation self-esteem

Drexel Deal

8235bb1

Kill the heroes and you kill the soul of a nation.

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Robert Ferrigno

4df87ea

New laws are always being passed but they alter almost nothing. Their real purpose is, precisely, to engender debate, to give the people of Italy a chance to express a lively opposition to the state so unanimous that it actually creates a supportive atmosphere of unity and national well-being. Everyone feels the state is fleecing them, treating them unfairly, so that feeling cheated by the state - and finding some small ways of cheating the state - turns out to be the cement that binds the nation together. In this way, the state is sacrificed to the idea of the nation.

nation state

Geoff Dyer