
Quoted in * 2020-05-12
Trump claims Asian Americans are angry at 'what China has done' to U.S.
Kimmy Yam
Yahoo News / NBC News
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-claims-asian-americans-angry-190959445.html
2020s, 2020, May
The Wild Flag (1943)
Context: Each delegate brought the flag of his homeland with him-each, that is, except the delegate from China. When the others asked him why he had failed to bring a flag, he said that he had discussed the matter with another Chinese survivor, an ancient and very wise man, and that between them they had concluded that they would not have any cloth flag for China anymore.
'What kind of flag do you intend to have?' asked the delegate from Luxembourg. The Chinese delegate blinked his eyes and produced a shoebox, from which he drew a living flower which looked very like an iris. 'What is that?' they all inquired, pleased with the sight of so delicate a symbol.
'That,' said the Chinese, 'is a wild flag, Iris tectorum. In China we have decided to adopt this flag, since it is a convenient and universal device and very beautiful and grows everywhere in the moist places of the earth for all to observe and wonder at. I propose all countries adopt it, so that it will be impossible for us to insult each other's flag.
Quoted in * 2020-05-12
Trump claims Asian Americans are angry at 'what China has done' to U.S.
Kimmy Yam
Yahoo News / NBC News
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-claims-asian-americans-angry-190959445.html
2020s, 2020, May
Source: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 21, The Qubit, Information in the quantum age, p. 187
Address to a joint session of Congress, Washington, D.C. (January 17, 1952); reported in Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963, ed. Robert Rhodes James (1974), vol. 8, p. 8326.
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Speech during the presentation of the new national symbols, October 19, 1978 https://pad.ma/BSI/info.
“Think you’ll find that’s just an illusion,” she said, and flashed a tiny smile.
Source: Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (2008), Chapter 22 (pp. 271-272)
1910s, Letter to the American Defense Society (1919)
Context: In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.
says the second. It struck me as enormously sad, somehow awkward and tragic.
From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, NATIONALISM
“All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.”
Source: Tooth and Claw (2003), Chapter 7, section 27 (p. 118)
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy