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Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow - red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.
Jesse Brown

God, Black, Nation

Well, I think when you come here and wave a Mexican flag in our face in a country that's giving a lot of these people an opportunity that they've never had before, I think a lot of Americans are insulted, whether they're first-, second-, third-, fourth- or fifth-generation Americans.
Henry Bonilla

Giving, Country, Before

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.
Joe Barton

Birthday, Women, Men

When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.
Lynn Swann

Football, College, Aggressive

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.
Denis Kearney

Men, Past, Liberty

My main point in this regard was to compete for my country and my people and to receive the support of the entire Cuban society, to carry my flag in whatever competition I was in, the Olympic Games, Pan-American Games.
Alberto Juantorena

Society, Country, Whatever

It's an unfortunate situation. After such a great play I felt like I got hit late, no flag, broke my hand. That's it. That's pretty much been the story for the past three weeks, and obviously at some point something catastrophic was going to happen, and I broke my hand.
Michael Vick

Great, Past, Happen

Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
Larry Craig

Political, Issue, Courts

It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.
Adrian Cronauer

American, Protect, Passing

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
Adrian Cronauer

Nature, Free, Speech

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.
Adrian Cronauer

Equality, American, Belief

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
Mary Antin

Birthday, House, Police

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
Amiri Baraka

Said, President, Legalized

We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.
William J. Brennan

Freedom, Cherished, Emblem

When I made it, I still didn't wave the flag and say, Yeah go Asian people. I do want people to know that about me, but I always felt like at least musically, let me just do what I do and be the best at it. Which is what I'm doing right now.
Chad Hugo

Best, Made, Felt

For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity.
Chad Hugo

Best, Trying, American

I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.
Franklin Knight Lane

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.
Franklin Knight Lane

Making, Glory, Makers

I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.
Thomas Starr King

Down, Audience, Thunder

I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there.
Kirsty Coventry

Positive, Country, Light

Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
William Manchester

Age, Men, Fight

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

Forget, Cannot, Nor

Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.
George M. Cohan

Show, Saved, Bum

If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.
Omar Torrijos Herrera

Keep, Kiss, Fall

In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.
William Hull

Morning, Few, Days

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
Norman Thomas

Burn, Gesture, Symbolic

We all know by now that Barack Obama is not a patriot. After all, he doesn't always wear a flag pin, and he objects to the idea that he should be required to in order to run for office.
Will Thomas

After, Idea, Order

Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.
Will Thomas

Patriotism, Question, Silly

I can't tell people what flag to fly.
Lesley Stahl

Note to secessionist Texans: now is the time to wave the Confederate Flag.
Melissa Harris-Lacewell

Time, Wave, Note

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