Megan Rapinoe Quotes

I don't think kneeling during the anthem is such a bad thing.

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.

Players who take a knee during the national anthem do so to protest injustice across the country - fulfilling a patriotic duty to never accept injustice, but to call it out when we see it.

When I take a knee, I am facing the flag with my full body, staring straight into the heart of our country's ultimate symbol of freedom - because I believe it is my responsibility, just as it is yours, to ensure that freedom is afforded to everyone in this country.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

It is an unmistakable statement of contempt for a government to burn its flag.

Burning the American flag should be punishable by loss of citizenship.

We wish to be treated 'not as ordinary prisoners,' for we are not criminals. We admit no crime - unless, that is, the love of one's people and country is a crime.

In the stands, I've always heard the people yelling. When I'm in the community, when I get approached, I can honestly say I've not had anybody say stop kneeling in public. It's all been supportive.

I feel in my heart it is right to continue to kneel during the national anthem, and I will do whatever I can to be part of the solution.

And I respect the anthem. I would never kneel for it. We all come from different walks of life and think differently about the anthem and the flag and what that means.

I've heard a lot of people say you need white athletes to get involved in the anthem protests. I've said before I'll never kneel for an anthem, because the flag means something different for everybody in this country, but I support my peers.

Freedom is a part of protest as well.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

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

The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.