- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Know
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Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
- Everything
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We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
- Past
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The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
- Cathedrals
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- Nov 07, 2020
All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
- Memory
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I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history - which nation the Lord has declared to be his base of operations in these latter days.
- Indigenous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.
- Greatest Threat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride in the Chinese nation.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political prodigies are rare in a nation that grooms top leaders through decades of Communist Party road-testing and pageantry. And because Chairman Mao's cult of personality led the country into extremism, the Party spent the next three decades engineering its politicians to be as indistinguishable as possible.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the British-Malaysian photographer Ian Teh first worked in China, more than a decade ago, he rendered it as a nation of people in Technicolor.
- Discredit
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shouldn't have someone working in the Oval Office trying to discredit and smear a private individual who's just speaking their mind about an important issue facing the country. That is not going to move our nation forward.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
It shouldn't take a constitutional crisis or an attack on the nation to create honest dialogue in the Senate.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020