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But in order to confront climate change, we need additional loyalties and commitments to a level beyond the nation.
You can be loyal to your family and to your community and to your nation, so why can't you also be loyal to humankind as a whole?
One nation can shut its doors, but maybe that stores up problems for the future.
Sometimes nationalists, for example, think that the nation is a biological entity.
It's made of the combination of soil and blood, creates the nation.
I come from a relatively small nation, Israel, and of eight million Israelis, I never met most of them.
A nation cannot suffer.
Even if a nation loses a war, we say, "Germany suffered a defeat in the First World War," it's a metaphor.
No nation would ever do that.
The printing press precipitated 200 years of chaos, moving from a world where the Catholic Church was the sort of organizing political force to the Treaty of Westphalia, when we finally knew what the new unit was: the nation state.
The reality was that I was growing up in the strongest financial nation in the world, the United States of America, while I watched my mother stand in line at a blood bank to sell her blood for 40 dollars just to try to feed her kids.
Ask yourselves this: How can 50 percent of the American population be financially illiterate in a nation driven by financial prosperity?
This is Henry VIII, the acclaimed king who reformed England's religion and government and set it on course to becoming a modern nation.
Prosecutor: An alliance he was willing to toss aside with no regard for the nation.
Defense: Henry had every regard for the nation.
And nobody has my permission for killing in my name, a man is but a man and if there is a God, this was his wish, the very ground I tread will live on, once I am gone on my way to oblivion, and all doctrines will suffer the same fate, and there is not one nation that has not proclaimed itself the chosen people.
We and we the people must raise justice up and must bring peace to our nation and must come together in concord, and we have a choice.
Now, if the reference income of a nation, for example, goes up 10 percent by comparing themselves to the outside, then on average, people's own incomes have to go up at least five percent to maintain the same level of satisfaction.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, people worshipped the nation, the Aryan race, the communist state.
Because America was from the outset a nation of wave after wave of immigrants, so it had to create an identity which it did by telling a story which you learned at school, you read on memorials and you heard repeated in presidential inaugural addresses.
Britain until recently wasn't a nation of immigrants, so it could take identity for granted.
And when we do that, and when we move from the politics of me to the politics of all of us together, we rediscover those beautiful, counterintuitive truths: that a nation is strong when it cares for the weak, that it becomes rich when it cares for the poor, it becomes invulnerable when it cares about the vulnerable.
In the US, the top 10 percent of households hold about 80 percent of the nation's wealth while the bottom 60 percent owns only about one percent.
Blacks and Latinos collectively make up 30 percent of the United States population, but collectively own about seven percent of the nation's wealth.
Unfortunately, few Americans have seen one, because it's been 38 years since one last touched the continental United States and 99 years since one last crossed the breadth of the nation.
You better take it before your filthy, abnormal, fraudulent self is bared to the nation."
CQ: So we must find a way to engage in meaningful conversations that are going to move us forward as a nation, and we can no longer wait for our elected officials to elevate our national discourse.
According to census data, a quarter of the nation's children have at least one foreign-born parent.
And a poetry collective joined forces with a university and hosted a series of tweet chats that challenged the nation on issues of faith, our faith not just in the context of religion, but our faith in politicians and tribe and nation, our faith in the older generation and in the younger generation.
I wanted to open those gates wide for everyone in Georgia, because that is our state, and this is our nation, and we all belong here.
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