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Memorial Day Quotes

“This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.”

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Author:David W. Blight
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“A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.”

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Book:On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891
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“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.”

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Author:Clarence Darrow
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“Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more wars, more graves to receive more flowers on future Memorial Days. The memory of the dead deserves a different dedication. To peace, to defiance of governments.”

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Book:The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
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“Memorial Day, the reason for it, fewer and fewer people know. It's just the first real weekend of summer, three-day weekend and so forth, barbecues, what have you. That's why I think education is important. I'm really glad my dad drilled into me these things that he had lived through and it helped me relate to him better and understand the things he thought were important and why he was raising me the way he was.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh
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“To those of you mourn the loss of a loved one today, my heart goes out to you. We remember that the blessings that we enjoy as Americans came at a dear cost. Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we cannot ever fully repay. But we can honor their sacrifice, and we must. We must honor it in our own lives by holding their memories close to our hearts, and heeding the example they set.”

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Author:Barack Obama
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“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”

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Author:Maya Angelou
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“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy
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