Flag Burning Quotes

• A flag is supposed to represent everything that a country does. It doesn't only represent the good things. If you burn the flag, you're burning the flag for what you perceive to be the bad things the country has done. it's only a symbol. It's only a piece of cloth.

  George Carlin

  Country, Burning, Done

  George Carlin (2009). “Last Words”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.

  William J. Brennan

  Freedom, Flags, Flag Day

  "Dear President-Elect Trump, this Free Speech thing is Way Out of Control" by Anne Clendening, www.elephantjournal.com. November 30, 2016.

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• Si hay un principio básico subyacente en la Primera Enmienda, es que el gobierno no puede prohibir la expresión de una idea simplemente porque la sociedad considere que la idea en sí misma es ofensiva o desagradable.

  William J. Brennan

  Gobierno, Expresión, Ideas

  "Texas contra Johnson, 491 U.S. 397". 1989.

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• You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people died for. An intact flag is worthless if it no longer stands for freedom. A flag burned to ashes challenges us to remember just exactly what freedom is.

  Mary Ruwart

  Freedom, Believe, People

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• La gente se ponía histérica con el comunismo como hoy se pone histérica con la quema de banderas. Estoy realmente en contra de esta gente que intenta demostrar que son grandes patriotas, porque no están pensando, sólo están siendo histéricos.

  Julia Child

  Pensar, Gente, Intentar

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If we set the precedent of limiting the First Amendment, in order to protect the sensibilities of those who are offended by flag burning, what will we say the next time someone is offended by some other minority view, or by some other person's exercise of the freedom the Constitution is supposed to protect?

  Edward Kennedy

  Exercise, Views, Order

  Constituent letter, 1997.

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• If the popular thing to do is to say you have to ban flag burning, even if it ultimately means we're compromising a core principle of who we are as a republic, I don't think Donald Trump really thinks that that deeply into it.

  Megyn Kelly

  Mean, Thinking, Principles

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• A bunch of bong-smoking, America-bashing, flag-burning, yoga-posing, incense-burning, dolphin-saving, salmon-eating hypocrites. These are the sensitive, liberal people who are always yelling about people's freedom of speech and expression, unless you happen to say something that pisses them off.

  Richard Jeni

  Yoga, Hypocrite, Yelling

  "A Big, Steaming Pile Of Me". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• Al menos en mi país, hemos llegado a aceptar la quema de banderas, pero lo que no podemos aceptar es la violencia, la quema de embajadas y las intimidaciones, y no hay excusa para ello.

  Daniel Fried

  Country, Flags, Violence

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• Even if the flag burning amendment does become law, the larger problem will remain of how to respectfully dispose of older, tattered flags. Well, fortunately the U.S. official Flag Code has a suggestion about this. "The flag, when it is in such a condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem of display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning." Owwwwcchh. In response, the House Republicans are calling for tattered flags to be kept alive via a feeding tube.

  Jon Stewart

  Law, House, Suggestions

  "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• La imagen de Barry Blitt de Barack Obama y Michelle en la Casa Blanca con él vestido de terrorista, ella vestida como un personaje de Angela Davis, una bandera ardiendo en la chimenea, un retrato de Bin Laden en la pared es una imagen de la que estoy muy orgulloso.

  Françoise Mouly

  Wall, Character, White

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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