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LiberalAndProud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 05:54 AM
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my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country
The Home and the World
by Rabindranath Tagore
1915

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/tagore/homewrld/hw03.htm

"I am willing," he said, "to serve my country; but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it."
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Branjor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 06:22 AM
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1. He is absolutely right....
Patriotism is often just an obstacle which gets in the way of doing right. That is because, as highly as patriotism is touted, it and right are not one and the same, except sometimes just coincidentally.
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