“If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.”– Gary Ackerman Related Quotes “When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.”– Jonathan Kozol “Personal identity seems like it’s just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ to Jay Gatsby in ‘The Great Gatsby.’ It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you’re given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?”– Chuck Palahniuk “For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.”– John Charles Polanyi