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“Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is best in a nation's character: a commitment to principle, a willingness to sacrifice, a devotion to the community by the choice of the individual. But among its toxic fruits are intolerance, belligerence and blind obedience, perhaps because it blooms most luxuriantly during times of war.”

“He who loathes war, and will do everything in his power to avert it, but who will, in the last extremity, encounter its perils, from love of country and of home--who is willing to sacrifice himself and all that is dear to him in life, to promote the well-being of his fellow-man, will ever receive a worthy homage.”

Men Wells War Country Home Lasts Sacrifice Willing Fellows Dear Worthy Well Being Encounters Patriotism Fellow Man Peril Homage Loathe Extremity Avert

Author:John Stevens Cabot Abbott

“... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.”

Giving Should War Country Sacrifice Willing Citizens Crisis Patriotism Times Of Crisis

Book:Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945

Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945

“Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.”

Giving Heart Spirit Race Progress Sacrifice Blood Land Patriotism Martyr Sanctify

Author:Edward Joseph Young

“We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves.”

Self Social Situation Generations Sacrifice Teaching Example Demand Mass Assuming Patriotism Sympathetic This Generation Present Situation

Book:The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois

Source: The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois

“I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.”