“The Union is what needs defending this year. Government of Enron and by Halliburton and for the Southern Baptists is not the same as what Lincoln spoke of. This gang of Republicans has humbugged us to death on terrorism and tax cuts for the comfy and school prayer and flag burning and claimed the right to know what books we read and to dump their sewage upstream from the rest of us and clear-cut the forests and gut the IRS and promote the corporate takeover of the public airwaves and to hell with anybody who opposes them.” CapitalismTax CutsRepublicansConservativesPrivatizationFlag BurningSchool Prayer Book:Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America Source: Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America
“People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I'm really against these people who try to show that they're great patriots, because they're not thinking, they're just being hysterical.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingShowsTodayBurningCommunismFlagsJust BeingPatriotHystericalFlag Burning Author:Julia Child
“At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and there is no excuse for that.” CountryAcceptingViolenceExcuseBurningFlagsNo ExcusesIntimidationEmbassyFlag Burning Author:Daniel Fried
“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.” PeopleHappensAmericaExpressionSpeechEatingYogaBunchSavingBurningSensitiveSmokingFlagsFreedom Of SpeechHypocriteYellingDolphinsSalmonPosingIncenseBongsFreedom Of Speech And ExpressionFlag Burning Author:Richard Jeni
“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?” IfsFirstsPersonsOrderNextViewsExerciseProtectConstitutionBurningMinoritiesFlagsAmendmentsSensibilityNext TimeOffendedFirst AmendmentPrecedentFlag Burning Author:Edward Kennedy
“The image by Barry Blitt of Barack Obama and Michelle in the White House with him dressed as a terrorist, her dressed as an Angela Davis character, a flag burning in the chimney, a portrait of Bin Laden on the wall is an image I'm extremely proud of.” CharacterHouseWhiteWallProudTerroristBurningBarackWhite HouseFlagsPortraitsBin LadenChimneysAngelaFlag Burning Author:Francoise Mouly
“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.” IfsThinkingMeanPrinciplesTrumpCoreCompromiseBurningThings To DoWho We AreRepublicFlagsBansFlag Burning Author:Megyn Kelly
“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.” IfsDoeCountryDonePiecesGood ThingsSymbolsBurningPerceiveBad ThingsFlagsFlag Burning Book:Last Words Source: Last Words
“If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.” IfsFirstsMayIdeasGovernmentPrinciplesExpressionOpennessCensorshipAmendmentsFreedom Of SpeechOffensiveFirst AmendmentDisagreeableBedrockAmendment 1Freedom To ReadAmendment 4Liberty Of SpeechFreedom Of Speech And ExpressionFlag Burning Author:William J. Brennan
“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.” IfsWayShouldWellsDoeProblemLawHouseAliveConditionsCallingRepublicanResponseDestroyedBurningCodeOfficialsFlagsDisplayAmendmentsSuggestionsFeedingFittingTubesEmblemsFlag Burning Author:Jon Stewart
“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.” PeopleIfsBelieveShowsRememberChallengesFreedomIdealsDiedProfoundBurningPreservesFlagsBurnedAshesWorthlessDisrespectFlag Burning Author:Mary Ruwart
“We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.” FreedomFlagsEmblemsFlag DayFlag Burning Author:William J. Brennan