The United States is known for being a respectful and prideful country in the world. In the Pledge of Allegiance, it truly marks what it means to be independent. On July 4th, every year we recognize the Declaration of Independence that was signed in the year of 1776 for the ability to be ourselves. However, in the book Anthem, by Ayn Rand, she recognizes the importance of equality, meaning that every person is forced to act the same way and no one is above or below another person. They use the motto “we are one in all and all in one.
What The Pledge of Allegiance Means to Me The Pledge of Allegiance means a lot to me. One thing the Pledge means to me is that we are all one nation. The words “One nation, under God, indivisible, With liberty and justice for all. Another thing the Pledge means to me is that we are all equal.
As Americans, we pledge to fulfill our duty as citizens to achieve “liberty and justice for all.” When Elizabeth Cady Stanton took this pledge, she proved to be a true patriot, bringing suffrage to American women. When Martin Luther King Jr. took this pledge, he put his own life at risk in order to protect the lives and rights of his fellow Americans. When Rachel Carson took this pledge, she wrote a book dedicated to exposing the dangers of pesticides to both the environment and the American people. When I took this pledge, I considered all the activists who came before me
Valkyrie Approximately sixty million people died during World War 2, ten million of those lives were innocent civilians. As many as 12,000 children were brutally murdered every day in concentration camps. The men and women in these camps seemed abysmal. There was some hope, however, the German resistance was planning a coup d 'etat which started with the assassination of Hitler. Planning the murder of the atrocious man, they found the perfect man for the job.
Already in today's world Christianity is attacked for just its beliefs alone. Bringing a bible to school is now illegal, speaking of God in a public area is now illegal, and praying in school is also illegal. However, no one expected people to attack the Pledge of Allegiance just because of one phrase, “under God”. Due to people refusing to say the pledge because of “under God”, court cases are arising to attempt to take it out of the pledge and people are suing schools for making there children recite the pledge. Instead of people uniting and not worrying about what the pledge states, people are breaking apart and forming petitions to abolish the phrase from the pledge.
“Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance” “ Everyone stand up……….Chasmia Stand up” “I do not participate in pledge of allegiance” “Do you not care about your country, YOU ARE AMERICAN RIGHT!!”
Should the Pledge of Allegiance be mandatory in schools across America? This is a question that flies in the face of people who are patriotic and people who are non-patriotic. Some people feel entitled to the fact that one should be required to do anything or held responsible or accountable for anything. Others may feel that everybody should be required to say the pledge every morning when school starts. Everyone has his or her own opinions about such controversial subjects.
Our constitution is the most important document protecting civil rights. Our founding fathers ensured that the ideals of freedom of the people having inalienable civil rights in the United States of America. We are a country that prizes integrity. A strong sense of national integrity that is designed to ensure our government is peopled by those that honor ethical and moral standards through the voting process.
Controversy is currently plaguing the nation as arguments concerning the President’s comments toward the NFL players that didn’t attend the singing of the nation anthem and those who kneeled during the singing. Many people believe he is suppressing, or otherwise putting an end to, the natural rights of these player as he stated, @realDonaldTrump “ ...our Great American Flag (or Country) and should stand for the National Anthem. If not, YOU 'RE FIRED. Find something else to do!” Twitter, 23 Sep. 2017, 11:18 a.m. In order to fully understand if he is indeed terminating their rights, one must apprehend the meaning of natural rights.
“Our flag is red, white, and blue, but our nation is a rainbow- red, yellow, brown, black, and white and we are all precious in God’s sight. ’- Jesse Jackson. Jesse Jackson was an African American civil rights leader and became one of the most influential African Americans. Jesses joined the Congress of Racial Equality, which was founded in 1914. There many different skin colors, races, religions, and beliefs in our country, but that doesn't mean we should be treated with any less respect.
The pledge that all American public schools recite today was written by Francis Bellamy in 1892. It was first published on September 8th in The Youth’s Companion, a popular children’s magazine. This edition of the magazine celebrated 400 years of Columbus’s arrival to America. This began a campaign to spread nationalism to children and sell flags to public schools. This original pledge stated.
“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” That one sentence changed my life, those thirty one words altered my decisions, the words “liberty” and “justice” shaped my future. To some, freedom, liberty, and independence are benefactions; others view them as excesses. But to me, those words signify duty, honor, and country. Everything granted to us is not free, we have to earn each and every aspect of the objects we have in life.
In the article, “What I Pledge Allegiance To” by Kiese Laymon. American people are blind when they see injustice and condemn people who question how this country is being run. If we can all learn to accept people ideas and believe we can move forward as a nation. Every American is born with a right to free speech, which should give the person the chance to speak their respective mind without the fear of prosecution. It is our social responsibility to keep hate from infecting this nation, we need to understand that if we accept every type of person who lives in the United States.