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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. -- Eric Hoffer
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. -- Bobby Sands
My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform. -- Eric Liu
There is a great deal of work that can be done between the SDLP representing the Nationalist population and the Unionist Parties, and I believe we should set down to do that. -- Dick Spring
Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other. -- Simon Le Bon
If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death. -- Malcolm X
I see this in the way that sermons are preached. How would you give a Black Nationalist speech or campaign for the Republicans when you're an integrated congregation? It doesn't happen. -- Michael Emerson
If this keeps up, we're going to own Melengar," Hadrian mentioned. "What's this we stuff?" Royce asked. "You're retired, remember?" "Oh? So you'll be leading the Nationalist advance, will you?" "Sixty-forty?" Royce proposed. -- Michael J. Sullivan
I come from a generation of sceptics, who do not believe what politicians say. The Labour Party wants to convince people through actions, not words. The Nationalist party have given the country 25 years of lies, the Labour Party will build the country anew. -- Joseph Muscat
The lunatic populism that preceded the Pearl Harbor bombing is astonishing in its permutations, its crisscrossings. Guys like [Catholic priest and controversial radio broadcaster] Father Coughlin and [racist and anti-Semitic agitator and founder of the Christian Nationalist Crusade] Gerald L.K. Smith started out as share-the-wealth socialists. -- James Ellroy
I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre. -- Cyril Cusack
Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist. -- Emir Kusturica
Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism. -- Christian Lous Lange
Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record. -- John Shelton Reed
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. -- George Orwell
Since the election of Shinzo Abe as the new Japanese prime minister, by reputation a fervent nationalist, relations between Japan and China have paradoxically improved a little. -- Martin Jacques
It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more. -- Rick Moody
So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones. -- Fredric Jameson
Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit. -- Anthony Braxton
When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict. -- Harri Holkeri
Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go. -- Anthony Bourdain
I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist. -- Clarence Thomas
I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens. -- Osman Baydemir
I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work. -- John Henrik Clarke
We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement. -- Vince Cable
Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka. -- James Buchan
The Chinese public is deeply nationalist, which matters to China's unelected political leadership as much as U.S. nationalism does to American politicians. As China becomes the world's largest economy, there is meaningful public pressure for its power status to advance in parallel. Any alternative would be humiliating. -- Noah Feldman
Koizumi was not rooted in Japan's rightwing nationalist tradition: he was a pragmatist and a populist. Abe, in contrast, is a rightwing nationalist. Unlike Koizumi, for example, he has questioned the validity of the postwar Tokyo trials of Japan's wartime leaders, which found many of them guilty of war crimes. -- Martin Jacques
I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist. -- Vicente del Bosque
If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism. -- Nick Clegg
Gandhi wanted to meet with Churchill, his most bitter foe, when he visited London in 1931- but it didn't happen. Churchill wanted to go to India personally as prime minister in 1942 to negotiate a final settlement on India with Gandhi and the other nationalist leaders - but the fall of Singapore prevented it from happening. -- Arthur L. Herman
I'm not a white nationalist. -- Glenn Beck
The biggest nationalist in Russia: that's me. -- Vladimir Putin
And my father, after all, was a nationalist. -- Heinrich Mann
For India, Kashmir lends credibility to its secular nationalist image. -- Nyla Ali Khan
Unilateralism is not internationalism, It is nationalist egotism gone mad. -- Hugh Dalton
There needs to be nationalist and republican confidence in unionism. -- Gerry Adams
The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love. -- Andre Gide
All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies. -- Mario Bunge
Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I'm a guy with a strong political opinion but I'm not a white nationalist. -- Glenn Beck
I believe in and love the populist, nationalist, antiglobalist rebellion happening all over the West. -- Milo Yiannopoulos
In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions. -- Ali Gomaa
I think we have to stop using the expression "alt-right." It's ridiculous. It's racist, fascist, nationalist. -- Barbara Boxer
If we say leaders are incompetent, we are going to fuel extremist, populist, xenophobic and ultra-nationalist parties. -- Jose Manuel Barroso
One day, Mexico will have a leader who is nationalist not simply in rhetoric, but also in fact. -- Stephen Kinzer
There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well. -- Orhan Pamuk
The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work. -- Carl Sagan
My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones. -- Adolf Eichmann
Kennedy saw the insurgency as a anti-colonial, essentially nationalist movement, feeding on social discontent. So you don't shoot people. -- Roger Hilsman
When you want a nation, that's called nationalism... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation. -- Malcolm X
We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country. -- Clement Attlee
The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid. -- C. V. Wedgwood
Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized to be semiobselete. -- Carroll Quigley
Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the Eurozone. -- Michael Hudson
[N]o serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so. -- Eric Hobsbawm
The election of the nationalist Chen Shui-bian as president in 2000 and his re-election in 2004 was a nadir in the relationship between Taiwan and the mainland. -- Martin Jacques
My peer network is international. It's people all over the place who I know, and respect their work. It's not really delineated by traditional nationalist ideas. -- Tim Hecker
Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion. -- George Packer
The whole history of the 20th century is a history of resistance groups which are either nationalist or, in large parts of the Muslim word, religious groups. -- Tariq Ali
Comandante Fidel Castro is a gifted communicator. He is a brilliant, brilliant mind. But the thing that struck me most about him was he was not a "nationalist." -- Louis Farrakhan
I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently. -- Ernst Zundel
I am a Yugoslav nationalist, aiming for the unification of all Yugoslavs, and I do not care what form of state, but it must be free from Austria. -- Gavrilo Princip
No-one wants to see violence of any kind on our streets, certainly not any violence that's justified by extreme nationalist ideas or that targets people because of their religion. -- Tim Soutphommasane
No matter what Donald Trump says, he has deep socialist leanings. He's a nationalist and a populist. And throughout history, whenever you combine those three things it never ends well. -- Glenn Beck
It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist. -- Edward Sapir
But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance. -- Zadie Smith
It's very interesting to me that the nationalist movement in Scotland has become so positive and self-reflective rather than anti-English. The referendum in 2014 was peaceful, for all its deeply and passionately divided people. -- Sarah Hall
The danger, though - and there have been signs of this recently - is that Europe begins to demonstrate a return to more nationalist sentiment. To my mind, that would be a great mistake. -- Lakshmi Mittal
If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one. -- James Joyce
The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953 overthrew the nationalist government of Mossadegh in Iran and brought back the shah. -- Edward Said
I read every one of the books on the shelf marked American Negro Literature. I became a nationalist, a colour nationalist, through the writings of men and women who lived a world away from me. -- Peter Abrahams
So who's the big red menace nowadays? Cuba. That's it? I'm sorry, but it's hard to whip up any us against them nationalist fervor about a country whose principal export is citizens who can swim. -- Dennis Miller
The reality is that the nationalist community in Northern Ireland were treated almost like animals by the unionist community. They were not treated like human beings. It was like the Nazis treatment of the Jews. -- Alec Reid
Steps toward a rapprochement between Israel and the Arab states create a process that turns economics into the moving force that shapes the regional relations instead of nationalist interests that were dominant in the past. -- Yitzhak Rabin

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