...Patriotism does not mean waving a flag, saying a pledge, chanting “USA, USA,” at some jingoistic pep rally, and then ignoring everything the Constitution says your nation was supposed to be about. It does not mean nation-worship, and if it does, then God help us, patriotism has become little more than modern idolatry, and is a concept with which we can do without....
Read the whole Commencement Speech At Grinnell College
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