quotes about Citizenship
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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
-- Amiri Baraka -
I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.
-- Antonio Banderas -
The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.
-- Bainbridge Colby -
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Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.
-- Barack Obama -
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.
-- Charles Rangel -
I think that anybody who works and pays taxes ought to have a right for citizenship,
-- Cruz Bustamante -
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Those who come forward will not be offered an automatic pass to citizenship and should be expected to pay a substantial fine or penalty to participate in the temporary program.
-- Elaine Chao -
Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond.
-- Eric Kierans -
Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.
-- Eric Liu -
True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.
-- Eric LiuSource : Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.61, Sasquatch Books
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To love country means to rise above I am because I am. It is to recognize that I am because we are.
-- Eric Liu -
Our citizenship is in eternity; history is our temporary residence.
-- Erwin McManus -
All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.
-- Grover ClevelandSource : Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”
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Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly civilized.
-- Herb Kawainui Kane -
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The objectives of education and industry are identical. Both are interested in good citizenship, in serving society, in a better life-and both firmly believe in freedom.
-- Herman Lee Donovan -
Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied grants of power.
-- Hugo Black -
Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.
-- Jacques Delors -
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru -
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill -
Castilian Spanish speaking Spain is big, but is bigger in addition with Catalonian speaking Spain, Galician speaking Spain and Basque speaking Spain. Democratic Spain, Constitutional Spain, can not be separated from diversity and the respect to the citizenship
-- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero -
For everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of everybody else, whose person or property is invaded. The natural right of each individual to defend his own person and property against an aggressor, and to go to the assistance and defence of every one else whose person or property is invaded, is a right without which men could not exist on earth.
-- Lysander SpoonerSource : "Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty".
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Good government is no substitute for self-government.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
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Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.
-- Mark Twain -
Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.
-- Michael Cunningham -
Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.
-- Nellie L. McClung -
Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.
-- Oprah Winfrey -
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You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities.
-- Paul CollierSource : Paul Collier (2007). “The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It”, p.176, Oxford University Press
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In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.
-- Phyllis Schlafly -
Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.
-- Phyllis Schlafly -
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
-- Ralph Nader -
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Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.
-- Sarah Vowell -
Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.
-- Spencer Bachus -
Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.
-- Tommy Chong -
Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
-- Tony Campolo -
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
-- Victoria WoodhullSource : Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1970). “A history of the national woman's rights movement”
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Just to pile up money for my own sake, I just can't view that as good citizenship.
-- Walter Annenberg -
My response to my friend Naheed Nenshi was simply to say that some of the hyperbolic language that's being used to critique this sensible reinforcement of the public nature of the citizenship oath is, I think, unhelpful, and is actually inflaming the situation.
-- Jason KenneySource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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The public citizenship oath done in a court in front of a judge and one's fellow citizens should be done publicly.
-- Jason KenneySource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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Having my Canadian citizenship is a blessing at this time, and there's a part of me that feels very much one foot in and one foot out, and I know I can go back to Canada whenever. There are a lot of things that Canada does really well are the same things that are very messed up in the U.S., but I know that's a pretty self-centered stance. I don't know. It can be pretty discouraging, particularly in a city like New York. It's hard to see so many of the issues happening in the country in an up close way, but at the same time, there's a sense of positive solidarity here.
-- Tei Shi -
The law in Russia bans "propaganda of homosexuality," which is defined as dissemination of information that can cause harm to the spiritual or physical development of children, including forming in them the erroneous impression of the social equality of traditional and nontraditional sexual relations. It's a law that actually enshrines second-class citizenship - it makes it a crime to claim social equality.
-- Masha Gessen -
And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say, well that's the rent that I pay for living on this planet, okay?
-- Ray McGovernSource : Source: www.truth-out.org
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We do not support an automatic pathway to citizenship.
-- Elaine Chao -
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My heavenly citizenship makes the whole world a foreign mission field.
-- Roland Smith -
History is the key to citizenship.
-- Taylor BranchSource : Source: www.pbs.org