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• It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley.

  Rachel Dolezal

  Justice, President, Vices

  "Rachel Dolezal Resigns as Spokane NAACP President" by Inae Oh, www.motherjones.com. June 15, 2015.

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• The desire the law makers have in having only dispensary owners to control marijuana is part of the game our law makers play to create a bureau of specific business created that owes its allegiance to the political process and therefore will make sure that process continues.

  Steven Machat

  Marijuana, Law, Games

  "A Cannabis Crusader Brings The Fight For Legal Weed To America’s Heartland". Interview with Stacey Chillemi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2016.

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• That's really a part of my nature , it goes along with autonomy and independence of action - it's just that I don't identify with the local group, no matter what it is, whether it's the human species or the American democracy, the nation, the country, religions, political parties, nothing. None of these have my allegiance because I'm not really concerned with what they do. I don't feel a part of any of this.

  George Carlin

  Country, Party, Political

  Source: mikestarling.weebly.com

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• This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.

  Milton Mayer

  Real, Patriotic, Government

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• The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.

  Stefan Molyneux

  America, Dirt, Blind

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2016

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• Our relationship would never vary from its allegiance to the shared values, the shared religious heritage, the shared democratic politics which have made the relationship between the United States and Israel a special-even on occasion a wonderful-relationship ... The United States admires Israel for all that it has overcome and for all that it has accomplished. We are proud of the strong bond we have forged with Israel, based on our shared values and ideals. That unique relationship will endure just as Israel has endured.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Strong, Unique

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• When you enlisted into the armed forces you swore to support and defend a Constitution that did not yet fully apply to you. You chose to endure the same sacrifices as your fellow comrades in arms to preserve the freedom of a land that was not yet fully yours. You accepted that you might have to pay the ultimate price on behalf of a nation to which you did not fully belong. Now, you will officially become citizens of the United States, a country to which each of you has already borne true faith and allegiance in your hearts and your deeds.

  David Petraeus

  Country, Heart, Sacrifice

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• [Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag.

  John Ashcroft

  Rights, Effort, Scary

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• What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us. Fighters are among us from many lands, with many gods and many beliefs. Believe as you will. What is between a man and his god is theirs alone to say.

  Janet Morris

  Believe, Commitment, Land

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.41, Paradise Publishing

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• I wouldn't pick a judge who said that the Pledge of Allegiance couldn't be said in a school because it had the words 'under God'' in it. I think that's an example of a judge allowing personal opinion to enter into the decision-making process, as opposed to strict interpretation of the Constitution.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, School, Thinking

  Presidential candidate debate in St. Louis, Missouri, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2004.

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• Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No matter where on earth one was born, to become heir to Western civilization's ancestry, one need only pledge allegiance to reason and individual liberty-the civilized, life-affirming values that represent the "West at its best."

  Terri Runnels

  Life, Civilization, Individuality

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• The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.

  Ralph Nader

  Men, Individuality, Fellow Man

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• And what a bizarre time we're in, Jan, when a judge will say to little children that you can't say the pledge of allegiance, but you must learn that homosexuality is normal and you should try it.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, Judging, Trying

  "Prophetic Views Behind The News" hosted by Jan Markell, KKMS 980-AM, March 6, 2004.

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• When we understand our baptismal covenant and the gift of the Holy Ghost, it will change our lives and will establish our total allegiance to the kingdom of God.

  Robert D. Hales

  Baptism, Covenant, Kingdoms

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• ...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.

  Howard Zinn

  Song, Blessed, America

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• We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.

  Howard Zinn

  Race, Needs, Humans

  "Howard Zinn's July 4th Wisdom" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. July 4, 2006.

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• Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an allegiance toward our elected officials, toward our founding fathers, toward our institutions, toward the preservation of this form of government that we have. Patriotism, nationalism, and sovereignty, all that proves that children are sick because a truly well individual is one who has rejected all of those things, and is truly the international child of the future.

  Chester Middlebrook Pierce

  Children, Father, School

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• For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Looks, World

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.23, Best Books on

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• Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.

  Barbara Kruger

  Differences, Doubt, Belief

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• In a new interview, Newt Gingrich says he cheated on two of his wives because he was too consumed with love for his country. Yeah, apparently he misunderstood the phrase, 'Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Country, Two, Wife

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• If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said nothing about God, say nothing about right or wrong, good or bad. To admit this would force philosophers to confront the possibility that the physical sciences offer a grossly inadequate view of reality. And since philosophers very much wish to think of themselves as scientists, this would offer them an unattractive choice between changing their allegiances or accepting their irrelevance.

  David Berlinski

  Reality, Thinking, Irrelevance

  David Berlinski (2010). “The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions”, p.36, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No jot, iota, or tittle of the temple rites is otherwise than uplifting and sanctifying. In every detail the endowment ceremony contributes to covenants of morality of life, consecration of person to high ideals, devotion to truth, patriotism to nation, and allegiance to God.

  James E. Talmage

  Uplifting, Details, Covenant

  James E. Talmage (2015). “The House of the Lord”, p.102, Latter-day Strengths

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• There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.

  Charles Baudelaire

  God, Men, Two

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say, into Eternal life, that is to say, to Remission of Sin. For as Eternal life was lost by the committing, so it is recovered by the remitting of men's sins.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Baptism, Kingdoms

  Thomas Hobbes (2002). “Leviathan”, p.377, Broadview Press

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• Loyal and substansial Catholic service on the battlefield undermined one of the most longstanding objections to emancipation: namely, that since Catholics owed religious allegiance to a foreign authority in the person of the Pope, their political and patriotic allegiance must necessarily be suspect.

  Linda Colley

  Religious, Patriotic, Political

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