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You don't believe a patriot can be a protestor? American history is full of protests, seen as forging our essential national character. The defining image of the original Patriots was the Boston Tea Party, a mobbish act of property destruction. One of the most celebrated moments of the Civil Rights protest movement was explicitly an appeal to patriotic ideals.

www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/28/when-protest-is-patriotic/

"One white woman, who watched King’s speech on TV, apparently changed her mind about the nature of the civil rights movement, telling a journalist for the Atlanta Constitution that 'after it was over, I was proud of the Negro and proud of America. I’d thought they were just going to criticize us white people. He made my country seem so beautiful I felt like I wanted to shake his hand.'"

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