Citizenship Quotes - Page 12

• Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.

  Harriet Lerner

  Political, Growth, Connections

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1996). “Life Preservers: Staying Afloat in Love and Life”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citizen, and as a student, I am protesting the tone of this lesson as racist, intolerant, and xenophobic.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Country, Son, Rights

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.56, Macmillan

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• from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship

  Amiri Baraka

  Slave Ships, Ships, Slave

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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

  Freedom, Believe, Better Life

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• If you care about your personal liberty, you'll be cautious when you feel comfortable, blame all the illegal immigrants for everything. What you need to do is attack their benefits: no free education, no free subsidies, no citizenship, no birth-right citizenship.

  Ron Paul

  Free Education, Liberty, Immigration

  Fox News-Google GOP Presidential debate at the Orlando Convention Center in Orlando, Fla, www.foxnews.com. September 22, 2011.

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• The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

  Eric Liu

  Special, Denial, Weapons

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• How can you have the mess we have in New Orleans, and not have had deep investigations of the federal government, the state government, the city government, and the failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn't get out of the way of a hurricane.

  Newt Gingrich

  New Orleans, Government, Cities

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• How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did that party become a party that now loses 95 percent of the black vote?

  Rand Paul

  Party, Rights, Race

  "Sen. Rand Paul Tries To Repair GOP's Image With Minorities". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. April 11, 2013.

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• Speaker Boehner needs to understand the urgency for reform. Until the House passes a bill that includes a pathway to citizenship, we will continue to be in the streets, at town hall meetings and on the phones, demanding justice for the 11 million aspiring Americans in our country.

  Eliseo Medina

  Country, Phones, Justice

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• None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

  Vaclav Havel

  Faith, Hero, Events

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

  Vaclav Havel

  Jobs, Honesty, Hero

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• Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Twenties, Citizens, Criteria

  "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. March 21, 2006.

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• Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

  Tony Campolo

  Jesus, Class, Crosses

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• It wouldn't matter whether you were Latino or Hispanic or Norwegian. If you didn't have proof of citizenship and if the police officer had reasonable suspicion, he would ask and verify your citizenship. I mean, that's the way that it is. That's what the federal law says. And that's what the law in Arizona says.

  Jan Brewer

  Mean, Law, Police

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• There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted, the roots of public virtue first nourished. Through love and instruction, discipline, guidance and example, we learn from our mothers and fathers the values that will shape our private lives and our public citizenship.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mother, Father, Character

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.445, Best Books on

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• Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Vegetables, Miracle

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.130, Faber & Faber

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• The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

  Winston Churchill

  Foundation, Inheritance, May

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.444, Da Capo Press

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• I think that anybody who works and pays taxes ought to have a right for citizenship.

  Cruz Bustamante

  Thinking, Pay, Taxes

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• I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.

  Albert Einstein

  Makeup, Attachment, Special

  Letter to Alfred Kneser, 7 June 1918

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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

  Pay, Program, Should

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• We feel a pathway to citizenship would reward illegal activity, ... Amnesty encourages further illegal immigration.

  Elaine Chao

  Illegal Activities, Pathways, Immigration

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• Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in our individual lives... core ethical values of trustworthiness, fairness, responsibility, caring, respect, and citizenship form the foundation of our democracy, our economy, and our society... Instilling sound character in our children is essential to maintaining the strength of our Nation into the 21st century.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Responsibility, Character

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• Here’s my gut belief: Obama got a leg up by being admitted to both Occidental and Columbia as a foreign exchange student. He was raised as a young boy in Indonesia. But did his mother ever change him back to a U.S. citizen? When he returned to live with his grandparents in Hawaii or as he neared college-age preparing to apply to schools, did he ever change his citizenship back? I’m betting not.

  Wayne Allyn Root

  Mother, School, Boys

  "Obama’s College Classmate: 'The Obama Scandal Is at Columbia'" by Wayne Allyn Root, www.theblaze.com. August 6, 2012.

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• If (O.J. Simpson) is acquitted, I will renounce my citizenship. And if I converse with him at a cocktail party, I will say, 'Well, there are so many people here who haven't murdered anyone. I think I'll go talk to them.' I'll also riot.

  Dick Cavett

  Party, Thinking, People

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• We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.

  Jennifer Pahlka

  Motivation, Inspiration, Government

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