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PATRIOTIC
LESSONS
AMERICAN DREAM
INDEPENDENCE
LIFE & LIBERTY
“I love
America more than
any other
country in the world
and it is,
exactly for this reason,
I insist
on the right to
criticize
her perpetually.”
James Baldwin
SHARED
HUMANITY
CHURCH
AND STATE
NATIONAL CRISIS
SOCIAL
JUSTICE
PATRIOTIC LESSONS
POPULAR CULTURE
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"I think the first
duty
of society is justice."
Alexander Hamilton
Born in the USA
Jon Ossoff: Vision for America
Love Sweet Love
John Stewart: Patriotism
Reflections on America
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"The
American Dream
belongs to
all of us."
Kamala Harris
Happy Fourth?
Declaration: Created Equal
American Life by Madonna
James Baldwin: America
Who is America for?
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“I have spent my life
judging
the distance between the
American reality and the
American dream.”
Bruce Springsteen
This Land is Your Land
Keith Boykin: I'm Not Proud
Pride and Patriotism
Party In The USA
Somewhere in America
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RELEVANT
SITES & PAGES
Patriotism
American
Workers
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"When
injustice becomes
the law, resistance
becomes a duty."
Thomas
Jefferson
"I believe
in social dislocation
and creative trouble. We need,
in
every community, a group of
angelic troublemakers."
Bayard Rustin
"When we
see something
that is not right, not fair, not just...
we have a
moral obligation to say something, do something,
get in
trouble, good trouble,
necessary
trouble."
John Lewis
GOOD TROUBLE
Social
Justice Troublemaker
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SHARED
HUMANITY | CHURCH
AND STATE |
NATIONAL CRISIS
SOCIAL
JUSTICE | PATRIOTIC
LESSONS | POPULAR
CULTURE
"I criticize America because
I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."
-Martin Luther King Jr
The
American Dream
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
Every year, as
fireworks hearken the commemoration of Independence Day,
it is helpful to remind ourselves that this democratic
experiment is a work in progress. Over the past 249
years of growing pains, the United States of America has
been in the process of learning what it means for all
its citizens to be free.
Little by little, the promise of liberty has been
reluctantly extended beyond wealthy, straight, white,
christian males. While progress has been made, it has
taken far too long for the blessings of freedom to
eventually make its way to women, blacks, minorities,
non-christians, gays, the poor, and those otherwise
disenfranchised and powerless. As we continue to fight
for our rights and defend our freedoms, may we soon come
to appreciate the ongoing internal struggle that is
inherent to living in a less than perfect union.
John Cena: Love and Patriotism
Brandi Carlile
Performs America the Beautiful
at Statue of Liberty
Party In The USA by Miley Cyrus
National Anthem by Lady Gaga at Biden Inauguration
Bill Maher: Celebrating
America's 250th Birthday
Currently, the 4th of July might feel more aspirational
than prescriptive. While harboring some cynicism at this
time, we must still believe that all people are created
equal. We must still believe in e pluribus unum . . .
out of many, one. While our courts and politicians seem
to be indicating otherwise, we must still believe that
one day we will judge a person not by the color of their
skin but by the content of their character.
We still believe that women, blacks, minorities, gays,
non-christians, and the poor deserve equal justice,
equal access, and personal independence. We still
believe in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Charlie Puth Sings the National Anthem
Declaration: Created Equal
Jon Ossoff: Vision for America
President Obama: Warning Against Cynicism and Division
John Prine: I'm a Victim of the Great Compromise
“The
promise of the American Dream requires that we are all
provided an equal opportunity to participate in and
contribute to our nation.”
-Charles B. Rangel, US Congress
“To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your
own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to
do is incredible freedom.”
-Maya Lin, Architect
“For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.”
-Bernie Sanders, US Senator
Let America Be
America Again
by
Langston Hughes
Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it
used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain seeking a home where
he himself is free.
America never was America to me.
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed. Let it be
that great strong land of love,
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme, that any
man be crushed by one above.
It never was America to me.
O, let my land be a land where Liberty is crowned with
no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free, and equality
is in the air we breathe.
There’s never been equality for me, nor freedom in this
"homeland of the free.”
Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?
Reflections on America
Philadelphia Gay
Men's Chorus: National Anthem
Why is America is World's Greatest Country?
This Land is Your Land: Pete Seeger and
Bruce Springsteen
You're a Firework: Katy Perry
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart. I am the
Negro bearing slavery’s scars.
I am the red man driven from the land. I am the
immigrant clutching the hope I seek,
And finding only the same old stupid plan of dog eat
dog, of mighty crush the weak.
I am the young man, full of strength and hope, tangled
in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land! Of grab the
gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay! Of owning everything
for one’s own greed!
I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil. I am the worker
sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all. I am the people,
humble, hungry, mean.
Hungry yet today despite the dream. Beaten yet today, O
Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead, the poorest worker
bartered through the years.
Yet I’m the one who dreamt our basic dream in the Old
World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true, that
even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned that’s
made America the land it has become.
Love Sweet Love
Trae Crowder: America's Birthday
is Ruined
Americans Are Exhausted By The
Right's Pretend Patriotism and
Phony Faith
Separation of Church and State
Born in the USA
by Bruce Springsteen
O, I’m the
man who sailed those early seas in search of what I
meant to be my home.
For I’m the one who left dark Ireland’s shore, and
Poland’s plain, and England’s grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa’s strand I came to build a
“homeland of the free.”
The free? Who said the free? Not me? Surely not me? The
millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike? The millions who
have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we’ve dreamed. And all the songs
we’ve sung.
And all the hopes we’ve held. And all the flags we’ve
hung.
The millions who have nothing for our pay, except the
dream that’s almost dead today.
O, let America be America again, the land that never has
been yet.
And yet must be. The land where every man is free.
The land that’s mine. The poor man’s, Indian’s, Negro’s,
me.
Who made
America, whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain, must
bring back our mighty dream again.
National Anthem
by Cher at Super Bowl
Bill Maher: Celebrating
America's 250th Birthday
This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie
Bruce Springsteen: Critical Patriotism
Legacy of the Declaration of Independence
Sure, call me any ugly name you choose. The steel of
freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people’s lives,
e must take back our land again.
America! O, yes, I say it plain!
America never was America to me.
And yet I swear this oath, America will be!
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, the rape
and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem the land, the mines, the
plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain, all the stretch of
these great green states,
And make America again!
Brandi Carlile
Performs America the Beautiful
at Statue of Liberty
Anderson Cooper: Optimistic
About America
Reflections on America
Republicans Don’t Own The 4th of
July
National Anthem by Lady Gaga at Biden Inauguration
“I
say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the
difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a
dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American
dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise
up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold
these truths to be self-evident: that all men are
created equal.”
-Martin Luther King Jr
“There are those who will say that the liberation of
humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a
dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.”
–Archibald Macleish, Poet
"In the end, the American dream is not a
sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families
don't always cross the finish line in the span of one
generation. But each generation passes on to the next
the fruits of their labor."
-Julian Castro, Politician and
Lawyer
Barack Obama: Good Government
Bette Midler: All You Fascists
Bound to Lose
National Anthem: Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon
Party In The USA by Miley Cyrus
John Stewart: Patriotism
Trump is Clueless About the
Declaration of Independence
America the
Beautiful by Ray Charles
Let America Be America Again by
Langston Hughes
Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Barack Obama: July 4th Message
on 250th Anniversary
Brandi Carlile at Superbowl: America the Beautiful
Declaration: Created Equal
Trae Crowder: America's Birthday is Ruined
Obituary of American Democracy by Robert L Arnold
National Anthem by Sheryl Lee Ralph
Heather Cox Richardson: Patriotism
Mayor Mamdani: Inequality in America
Bruce Springsteen: Critical Patriotism
Legacy of the Declaration of Independence
The Long, Ongoing Debate Over 'All Men
Are Created Equal'
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