Johnny Cash
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"Burn my Flag and I will shoot you........but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American"
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Flags
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James A. Baldwin
Writer
"It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you."
Howard Dean
Politician
"I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks."
Jimi Hendrix
Musician, Guitarist
"White collar conservative flashin' down the street, Pointing that plastic finger at me, Hoping soon my kind will drop and die, But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high."
John Oliver
Comedian
"The Confederate flag is one of those things that should only be seen on t-shirts, belt buckles and bumper stickers to help the rest of us identify the worst people in the world."
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"I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the constitution to a man who will burn the constitution and then wrap himself in the flag."
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"That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love."
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"When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag."
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"Nationalism is just racism with a flag."
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"Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it."
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"A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag."
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"I really do see the good in people, and I don't want to change that."
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"I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag."
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"You don't defend national sovereignty with flags, cheap election rhetoric, and advertising campaigns."
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"I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I see them as symbols, and I leave them to the symbol-minded."
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"Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?"
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"Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag."
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"Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel."
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"The flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away."
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"In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike."
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"Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us."
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"The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag."
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"I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot."
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"As Conservatives, We Don't Care About The Color of Your Skin, We Care About The Color of Our Flag"
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"Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?"
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