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Brazilian Integralist Action

Ação Integralista Brasileira

by António Martins

About the Flag and the Party
Erroneous Variant Flag

Ação Integralista Brasileira

Brazilian Integralist Action

A Bandeira Integralista was the site [no longer on-line--ed.] of the Acção Integralista Brasileira (Brazilian Integralist Action), a ultra-right nationalist group or party:

In a royal blue field, a white sphere, in the centre of which is an uppercase sigma.
The blue of our flag symbolizes the attitude of the integralist thought. It suggests distances, showing that integralism doesn't accept the political limits that have been underevaluating us (bad translation here), but has a great ideal, that is the integrity of Brazil and the projection of its greatness among the peoples of the Universe.... The white sphere shows the purity of feelings and the honesty of the integralist feelings. The white colour is also the result of the mixture of all the colours, and the sigma means the integralization of all social forces in the supreme expression of Nationhood."

Jorge Candeias, 11 February 1998

I just noted that there's a hidden mathematical meaning on this symbol. Upper case sigma is the symbol for successive addition, while the integral calculus