At the last part — ‘land of the free and home of the brave’ — something just came over me, it made me want to say, like, ‘OK, this is a great country, this is a great land, but as Americans, are we really standing for what the anthem says?'. Brooke Andersen More Quotes by Brooke Andersen More Quotes From Brooke Andersen Land of the free, home of the brave — do they include minority people? Because black people were considered three-fifths of a person at the time. Brooke Andersen