My Passport
I don’t know if you’ve ever really looked at your passport (to those who are blessed to have one) before but I just did and who’da thunk there’d be so much inspiration (and hypocrisy) all at the same time lol.
Okay more on the inspiration side once you really get into it….check these quotes out.
Page 3
We the People
Of the United States,
in Order to form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility,
provide for the common defense,
promote the general Welfare, and secure
the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and
our Posterity, do ordain and establish this
Constitution for the United States of America.
“More like Divided States of America these days but whatever, that’s just me.”
Page 6-7
The principal of free governments adheres to the American soil. It is bedded in it, immovable as it’s mountains.
Daniel Webster
Page 8-9
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair.
George Washington
Page 10-11
We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
excerpt from the Declaration of Independence
Page 12-13
We have a great dream, it started way back in 1776 and God grant that America will be true to her dream.
Martin Luther King, Jr
Page 14-15
This is a new nation, based on a mighty continent, of boundless opportunities.
Theodore Roosevelt
Page 16-17
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Page 18-19
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest sleeping in the unplowed ground. Is our world gone? We say “Farewell.” Is a new world coming? We welcome it – and we will bend it to the hopes of man.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Page 20-21
May God continue the unity of our country as the railroad unites the two great oceans of the world.
inscribed on the Golden Spike, Promontory Point, 1869
Page 22-23
We send thanks to all the Animal life in the world. They have many things to teach us as people. We are glad they are still here and we hope it will always be so.
Excerpt from the Thanksgiving Address, Mohawk Version
Page 24-25
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class – it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.
Anna Julia Cooper
Page you get the drift
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
“(Is it just me or didn’t JFK pay the ultimate price?)”
Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.
E.B. White
What a glorious morning for (a beer lol just kidding) our country.
Samuel Adams
We are covered by the American banner, let us cling to it, and if required, sacrifice our lives defending it.
Jose Antonio Navarro
…That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. (Hmmmm)
Abe Lincoln
Go west young man, and grow up with the country.
Horace Greely
Democracy is based on the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. (AMEN!)
Harry Emerson Fosdick
A big iron needle stitching the country together.
Jessamyn West
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. (AMEN 2x)
John Paul Jones
It is immigrants who brought to this land the skills of their hands and brains to make of it a beacon of opportunity and hope for all men.
Hebert H. Lehman
This nation has a banner…it is the banner of Dawn. It means Liberty…Every color means Liberty, every thread means Liberty.
Henry Ward Beecher
We live in a world that is lit by lightning. So much is changing and will change, but so much endures and transcends time. (Hmmmm)
Ronald Regan
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas Jefferson
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Every generation has the obligation to free men’s minds for a look at new worlds…to look out for a higher plateau than the last generation.
Ellison S. Onizuka
I found those to be a little ironic, a little eye opening, things that make you go Hmmmmm.
I guess the last decade of presidents didn’t really have anything profound to add. And I don’t know about you but I had to look some shit up too, just to make sure I’m clear.
Liberty: 1. state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behavior or political views. 2. the power or scope to act as one pleases.
Oppressive: unjustly inflicting hardship and constraint, especially on a minority or other subordinate group.
HEH. And I love the example sentence they gave too. “an oppressive dictatorship”
I‘ll keep going just for the sake of keepin’ on the keepin’ on. That and I didn’t do well in government class. I must’ve been absent the day we went over these vocab words lol.
Dictatorship: government by a dictator. Totalitarian state. Absolute authority in any sphere.
Does that sound familiar to anybody else?
Long story short, I found my passport to be quite interesting.
— Melissa Parker
— Your Friendly Neighborhood Fearless Leader