- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nation Quotes
Reflections on country, community, and the work of change.
This collection brings together quotes about what a nation owes its people and what its people owe back, touching on education access, inequality, and the leaders a country produces. Several lines connect that civic outlook to a deeper belief in what a country can become.
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- Compromised
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every nation necessarily inhabits a morally compromised space. All too often our ideals seem to be held to ransom by what we believe, rightly or wrongly, to be objective reality.
- Guerrilla
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without my services, Pakistan would never have been the first Muslim nuclear nation. We were able to achieve the capability under very tough circumstances, but we did it.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a general consensus to go for the nuclear test. The whole nation wanted it, and it was done properly.
- Growth Rate
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- Nov 07, 2020
No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.
- Nov 07, 2020
If there's one thing that unifies the nation in times of perpetual war it's the pledge to 'Support the Troops.'
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't stress enough how strongly I am against any state intervention in a sovereign nation's affairs.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Michelle Obama is on the right track with her Let's Move campaign to bring down childhood obesity. She and I come from the same state, Illinois, which is number four in the nation for obese children. One out of five Illinois children are considered obese. Not overweight, obese. And two-thirds of Americans are either overweight or obese.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a rugby school and rugby nation, but I fancied giving football a go, and luckily, it paid off.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suggest that ten thousand Negroes march on Washington, D.C., the capital of the Nation, with the slogan, 'We loyal Negro American citizens demand the right to work and fight for our country.'
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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- Nov 07, 2020