Dear Alan, even though I love questions more than answers, here is an answer to your question: The way it is usually quoted is a space closing, no more arguments needed, shut up .... argument. The actual quote instead is a space opener, very disturbing, calling for action...perhaps even un-american. No wonder, it came from a German Immigrant who had to leave his native country because of his involvement in the German Revolution of 1848. He kept meddling in political affairs in the US fighting slavery, fought in the Union Army while his wife opened the first kindergarten in the US and perpetrated other subversive stuff. Lets keep going on opening space in the same spirit that moved old Carl to his great uttering. >From an expatriate in Berlin mmp
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 08:18:16 -0500, Alan Klein wrote: >Interestingly, the original quote came from U.S. Senator Carl Schurz who, on >February 29, 1872, made the following remark on the floor of the Senate: > >"..My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, >right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." >(The Congressional Globe, vol. 45, p. 1287) > >No one seems to ever think to quote the whole thing. Not in this war...not >during the Vietnam War. I wonder why? > >~Alan Klein > >-----Original Message----- >From: David William McKay >If I was an American -- I'm a Canuck -- I would be worried about the >situation. Perhaps I have it bass-ackwards. But in wartime survival >dictates "my country right or wrong" but in peacetime democracy dictates >that the citizenry place democracy itself as the priority. > >* >* >========================================================== >[email protected] >------------------------------ >To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, >view the archives of [email protected]: >http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > >To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: >http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > Michael M Pannwitz, boscop eg i.G. Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany ++49-30-772 8000 www.boscop.de www.michaelmpannwitz.de Check out the new Open Space World Map now with 169 Open Space Workers in 37 countries www.openspaceworldmap.org * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
