Bubba Wallace Quotes

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.

I believe it's not 100 percent right to kneel during the national anthem, because you have to respect what many have done for this nation. I think kneeling prior to the anthem, like the Dallas Cowboys have done, is right.

When Colin Kaepernick refuses to stand for the anthem, that's both a sports story and a politics story.

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.

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

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

When athletes take a knee during the National Anthem, we must ignore President Trump's absurd claim that they're 'un-American' and instead understand that it's very American to peacefully protest systemic injustice.

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.

Kneeling for the anthem does nothing to advance solutions to racial injustice, police brutality, or any other social plight. It is a slap in the face to patriotism itself. It is a statement that America as a country is no longer worth standing for.

Choosing to disrespect our flag is an over-generalized indictment of the greatest nation on Earth.

The Coup does not support the American flag.

Kaepernick chose to kneel during the most politically divisive time in recent history. The country was completely divided.

I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist.

Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.

It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot

Normally that's the kind of thing, even Colin Kaepernick should applaud that, but people don't. And that's quite telling right there, but [Donald] Trump wants to reinstitute that.

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

Protesting is a fundamental aspect of our democracy, and I will always encourage this course of action, but it can be intimidating.

We live in a country where movies, music, and sports are more important than God to a lot of people. It's why Colin Kaepernick's protest rocked the nation and got the whole world talking. Taking a knee is a simple act of defiance. Had Colin done it anywhere other than the football field, it might not have even made the news.

We have the freedom of speech. We are able to hold hands in protest and stand up for what we believe in and have people hear what you have to say.

What I worry about is, if you are on the side of feeling it's disrespectful to kneel during the anthem, that somehow you're racist, or somehow you're not in favor of bettering this country and finding equality and common ground.

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.

I can understand if you think that I'm disrespecting the flag by kneeling, but it is because of my utmost respect for the flag and the promise it represents that I have chosen to demonstrate in this way.