There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
Bruce Springsteen
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Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that. -
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
More quotes by Bruce Springsteen
- I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.
- The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
- For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in my intelligence was elsewhere.
- My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
- Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.