"Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't."
-Todd Gitlin
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"American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.“
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"There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life."
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"The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism."
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"I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society."
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"I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States."
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"Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state."
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