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I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.

— Jackie Robinson

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition.

— Seth Low

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.

— Henry Cabot Lodge

I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am.

— Blake Anderson

Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978.

— Greg Ginn

I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

— J. B. Smoove

I can't tell people what flag to fly.

— Lesley Stahl

As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

✗Opposing Perspectives

I am a man that loves the flag.

— Terry Bradshaw

It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.

— Donald Trump

We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest