Criticism
The Minnesota flag has come under increasing criticism both for its poor design and its image in the seal of a farmer watching a Native American in the background, symbolizing Manifest Destiny and the inevitability of land being procured by white settlers. On several occasions, bills have been introduced in the Minnesota Legislature to establish a legislative task force for studying changes to the flag, and several alternative flag designs, such as the North Star Flag, have been put forth and widely endorsed by state politicians and newspapers.
In 2001, the Minnesota flag was chosen as one of the ten worst flag designs in an online poll conducted by the North American Vexillogical Association.
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Famous quotes containing the word criticism:
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—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)
“It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
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—John Vorster (1915–1983)