Gotta keep reminding myself...and (it seems) others.

[reprobayt]

America isn't easy.

America is advanced citizenship.

You've got to want it bad, because it's gonna put up a fight.

It's gonna say, "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil who is standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the 'land of the free'? Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Now show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms.

Then you can stand up and sing about the 'land of the free.'"

The American President

Comments

[leopard-print.livejournal.com]

I love that movie.

[libidoergosum.livejournal.com]

I do that every day.

[mermaidnchains.livejournal.com]

Great reminder. Thanks.

[john666.livejournal.com]

That movie was on TBS the other night.

[twisteddaydream.livejournal.com]

I love that speech. In fact, I love that movie. But that speech is one of my favorites. That one and the speech Bill Pullman makes in Independence Day

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

It seems to me that the definite rights that American citizens have are actually beginning to damage the fabric of American society. The number of things that people do to each other because they have the right to do so over there seems to do strange things to the culture - things that don't happen in equally urban societies that don't have the same principles, like the UK.