Michael T. Flynn Quotes

Wake up America.

I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.

Now, when our nation to ruin's brink is verging, let us speak while there is time! Now, when the padlocks for our lips are forging. Silence is crime!

I have a vision of my country, and I cannot sit and watch things pass by.

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

September 11 either made me love this country or it made me realize how much I already did. I think it's the latter. Seeing "Fahrenheit 9/11" made me think deeply about love of country - how it molds us, drives and emboldens us and how it can sometimes make us so angry, we want to shout out to the world: 'No, this is wrong.'

Let us all work for the nation that is yet to be but which yet must be.

Citizenship should be placed above everything else, even learning.

If you love your country you’ll find ways somehow to speak out to do what you think is right.

I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics. Working within. Not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is.

Did Lincoln hate America when he voted against the Mexican War? Did Mark Twain hate America when he made speeches against the Spanish American War? If you love your country you will find ways to speak out …

The American Government will be what we all make of it.

I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.

If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote.

If you sit back and simply allow your country to be, it is highly unlikely to be the kind of country you want. You have to be active.

Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!

I'm not inherently the most politically or, like, socially conscious rapper, you know? You're not just going to wake up tomorrow and be Common.

The big percentage is us, the real people, and we have to say something. You have to speak up. You have to.

I don't think any country is perfect. It's our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don't like. I think that's part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

I remember being 18 and being fed up with everything - fed up with society, fed up with the political system, fed up with myself - and then you kind of go, 'Actually, this voting thing is amazing,' because you have a chance to change it, right?