“America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You’ve
gotta want it bad, ‘cause it’s gonna put up a fight. It’s gonna say, ‘You want
free speech?' Let’s see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil,
who’s standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which
you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim
this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country cannot just
be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right
to burn that flag in protest. Now show me that, defend that, celebrate that in
your classrooms. Then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free.” – President Andrew Shepherd in
An American President (1995)
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