Oh yeah,like that ISN'T going to be used to protect slavery!
Alternate Non-Religious US Mottos
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Oh yeah,like that ISN'T going to be used to protect slavery!
Veni, vidi, vici?
I prefer 'such as life, liberty and the pursuit of superior stopping power'.
Of course. Like it or not, legally chattel were classified as property and not people. That's one of the reason my bacon really gets burned when people try to misuse/misrepresent the term slavery for their own political agenda.
Ah, shucks, that's not a reference to dying if you don't have any books? I could use THAT as a motto.
The English, Scots and Scots-Irish would all have been considered good Anglo-Saxon stock by the ruling class. The French were only a tiny percentage of the American population. The Dutch and Germans were larger, but still minorities and considered cousins of the Anglo-Saxons (who were German tribes originally).
Anyway, whatever our debates about the reality, the point is how the ruling class saw America. And they always saw it as an Anglo-Saxon nation, even if it did have 'troublesome' minorities like Africans and Irish.
"The idea that the United States is, or should be, "a nation of immigrants", not only non-Germanic but non-white, would have struck most Americans before World War II as bizarre."
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...AbD7oDADw&ved=0CE0Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false
Given the current trends in US politics
Pecunia regnit
might make a lot of sense.
Pecunia regnit
might make a lot of sense.
I was thinking more along the lines of Iustita Omnibus Praeter Nigrum Homines Inermes.
Property is a basic fundamental right. Ownership of one's self is necessary for all other rights.
Remember that slavery was also defended by the belief that slaves were "happy".
"America.... fuck yeah!" Imagine that proudly displayed on our money and government buildings...
Tallest Skil
Banned
But you don’t have the right to property. It’s “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” in our documents, anyway.
That’s the point.
Nope.
People are by definition not property.
"In God We Trust" has an older history than that. While it was formally adopted as a motto then, it has appeared on U.S. currency off and on since the mid-19th century (and continuously since 1938).
E Pluribus Unum. "From many, one"
I like this not only because it is already a motto the US uses, it has a variety of meanings, all positive and accurate: It reflects the origins and structure of the US as a federation of states, and also acknowledges and celebrates the fact that Americans come from all parts of the world and have become part of a single, diverse, "American" nation.
I like this not only because it is already a motto the US uses, it has a variety of meanings, all positive and accurate: It reflects the origins and structure of the US as a federation of states, and also acknowledges and celebrates the fact that Americans come from all parts of the world and have become part of a single, diverse, "American" nation.
Lunarwolf
Banned
Veni, vidi, vici?
Might have been true pre-Vietnam.
Now it's more like Veni, Vidi, Fugi.