Ari Shavit Quotes

Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.

In the Middle East, a nation whose youngsters are not willing to kill and get killed for it is a nation on borrowed time. It will not last long.

Every nation has a vision it lives for and is prepared to make all sacrifices. One may call it National purpose, … It is something which does not change. If it changes, a nation dies. It is supreme and therefore the nation acts and reacts with the limits laid down by it. It is the vision which allows a nation to build its future.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in this world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

We are a nation without classes or special privileges.

I am for America because America is for the common people.

Vive les peuples, Vive la Republique! Vive la France!

There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism.

We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.

I think it is important that you have people from all different vanguards, from all different walks of society and different viewpoints to be focused on the struggle for equality and democracy. We need as many champions for the cause and as many events as possible to help keep this in focus.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our strength. The real strength of our nation comes from our people - not our buildings.

I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

Creating a nation requires the will of the people!

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

The flag is the guarantor and symbol of equality.

Let no man write my epitaph. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not until then, let my epitaph be written.