WEEKLY NEWS IN VERSE

RANDOM QUOTE

“If patriotism were defined, not as
blind obedience to government, nor as
submissive worship to flags and anthems,
but rather as love of one’s
country, one’s fellow citizens (all over
the world), as loyalty to the
principles of justice and democracy, then
patriotism would require us to disobey
our government, when it violated those
principles. We have thrown away the
most valuable asset we had —
the individual’s right to oppose both
flag and country when he believed
them to be in the wrong.
We have thrown it away; and
with it, all that was really
respectable about that grotesque and laughable
word, Patriotism. We grow up in
a controlled society, where we are
told that when one person kills
another person, that is murder, but
when the government kills a hundred
thousand, that is patriotism.”

Howard Zinn