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Men, who are in touch with the matriot inside of them, have also been important to the cause of eradicating war.
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There is one most important thing that matriots would never do, however, and this is the key to stopping killing to solve problems: a matriot would never send her child or another mother's child to fight nonsense wars ... and she would march into a war that she considered just to protect her child from harm.
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A true matriot would never drop an atomic bomb, carpet bomb cities and villages, or control drones from thousands of miles away to kill innocent men, women, and children.
Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan 2006
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Men who are in touch with the matriot inside them have also been vitally important to the cause of eradicating war.
Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan 2006
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As matriot Emma Goldman said, “Patriotism…is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.”
Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan 2006
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However, a matriot also knows that when her country is wrong, it can be responsible for murdering millions of people.
Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan 2006
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There is one most important thing that matriots would never do, however, and this is the key to stopping killing to solve problems: a matriot would never send her child or another mother's child to fight nonsense wars ... and would march into a war herself that she considered just to protect her child from harm.
Matriotism 2006
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A matriot loves his or her country but does not buy such exploitive slogans as “My country, right or wrong.”
Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan 2006
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Men, who are in touch with the matriot inside of them, have also been important to the cause of eradicating war.
Matriotism 2006
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A matriot knows that her country can do a lot of things right, especially when the government is not involved.
Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan 2006
tusseymountain commented on the word matriot
Matriot (ma’ - tri – at) noun 1. One who loves his or her country. 2. One who loves and protects the people of his or her country. 3. One who perceives national defense as health, education, and shelter of all people in his or her country. (Orig. Frances Payne Adler, 1991)
Thought I'd finally invented a word. Darn. Ms. Adler got there way ahead of me.
June 6, 2009
madmouth commented on the word matriot
gender-concept assignations are so fickle. there's 'patria'--the fatherland, as the root of 'patriot', but one so often encounters countries referred to as 'she' in reading and discourse (esp. during the world wars)
June 6, 2009