“Astonishing how everyone is willing to go abroad to fight for the rights of foreigners while having such little concern for those of their own countrymen at home.”
“England's civil war had ended in a consensus as the English discovered that they hated foreigners more than they hated their own countrymen.”
“It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.”
“What was the good of having such a fine home if you weren't willing to fight for it?”
“I have no country...my countrymen are the men and women who work against oppression- it does not matter where they are. With them I feel at home- we understand each other. Others are foreign to me." -Agnes Smedley in Daughter of Earth”
“Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly — and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up alive and safe.”