Tao Te Ching

“If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles.”

— Howard Zinn 1922 – 2010 CE
Historian of the oppressed and defeated

from Writings on Disobedience and Democracy