A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.
BILLY BRAGGWe’ve heard so much about the American dream: well, Trump is the American nightmare made flesh.
More Billy Bragg Quotes
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The key to it has to be some sort of proportional representation, which allows there to be more parties.
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If you’ve got a blacklist, I want to be on it.
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Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.
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Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
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You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you’re waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.
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Whether we like it or not, we live in a post-ideological world. That’s how a Donald Trump can get through. He has no ideology at all: in that sense, he’s a bit like Mussolini.
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What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.
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All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
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I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it’s me who has to come up with all the ideas.
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If we think we’re a nation with great ideas, and a nation that wants to make the world a better place, let’s commit ourselves and involve ourselves with our European partners.
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You can experience a download, but you can’t download an experience.
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I think if you’re going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can’t just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.
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Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.
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I’m just saying that we need to find a better way to manifest the broader society’s aspirations, politically.
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I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.
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