What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.
There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people who are not quite sure that they are getting it right.
Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, 'with liberty and justice for all,' and I believed all that.
Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.
The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.
In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going to look them in the eye and tell them the truth, even some truths that they don't like. And - but they have to believe the person's speaking from their heart and are authentic.
The very flag of freedom that waves over our heads is formed from material cultivated by slaves, on soil moistened with their blood drawn from them by the whip of a republican taskmaster!