Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.
Red House Painters were doing cover songs before our first record deal. I remember live shows where we did an AC/DC song; I think we did ‘Send In The Clowns’ by Judy Collins. We did ‘The Star Spangled Banner,’ which came out on our third record.
I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors to theirs.
Remembering growing up on U.S. Army bases stateside and abroad, the Star-Spangled Banner was played at important occasions… and often. It was the first song I learned the lyrics to.
Innovation is the running theme and spirit of the policies adopted by the Chinese government, and it is the banner that we will always hold high.
‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ should’ve never been made into our national anthem. That President Woodrow Wilson, widely thought to be one of the most bigoted presidents ever elected, chose it as our national anthem, is painfully telling as well.
Here’s the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god.
For years, Islamists and other extremists have taken advantage of grievances of Muslims in Britain and have successfully identified ways to integrate them under one ‘Islamic’ banner.
Look at New York and the number of crimes out there. Every big city has crime. Bombay is the biggest city of India. So, naturally, all crimes in Bombay get banner headlines.
Waving the banner of my coaches is a heavy flag to wield, so it’s something I take very serious.
I have serious challenges with Donald Trump and his messaging that is going to make it more difficult for us to bring in minorities, Hispanics, into the party and into our voting base in November. I would be concerned about him carrying the banner for the Republican Party.
Arsenal fans are real lovers of the game. They don’t miss anything in the stadium and are there for the team and the individual players. I have to admit I love banners like ‘We don’t need Batman, we’ve got Robin’ and stuff like that.
It is always good to be cast in films with good stories and content, made by such amazing banners and directors. For an actor it’s a task to work in films like these.
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
My dad was one of the reasons I kept Simply Red going so long. I was brought up to stick at things. I was the only songwriter in Simply Red, so I could have toured under my own banner. But I’d developed the name, so I stuck with it.
So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner.
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
There is no doubt that terrorists acting under the banner of Islam have declared war on us.
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
When I went to Boston, I tell people all the time, being able to be in that arena with those banners hanging up, it excited me.
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute ‘Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.’
The strange dilemma of the ‘ethnic-fiction’ writer is that you are supposed to carry a banner for your homeland, be a voice for it, and educate the rest of the world about it, but I think that’s far too onerous a burden for any writer to bear.
Even as we continue to carry the banner of civil rights and environmental justice, we’ve also got to focus on many, many people – for them, life starts with a good job.
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