Citizenship Quotes - Page 19

• What I think I represent is a patriot who has no political baggage behind him that has dedicated his entire life to serving America and all segments of our citizenship. I think I bring an element of appeal to a very broad spectrum of Texans to include veterans, the middle class, the lower class and the Hispanic population, obviously. But, also, I think there is this leadership quality that has to be taken into consideration.

  Ricardo Sanchez

  Taken, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.texastribune.org

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• We need – more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes – to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make serious imaginative assessment of that special relationship between the self and the city; its unique plasticity, its privacy and freedom.

  Jonathan Raban

  Unique, Assessment, Self

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Soft City: Picador Classic”, p.181, Pan Macmillan

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• While we appreciate our ancestry as Americans or even our ethnic ancestry and our color of skin, we believe that our real citizenship is in Heaven.

  Max Lucado

  Real, Believe, Color

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Amend Constitution to remove aliens' birthright citizenship.

  Ron Paul

  Aliens, Constitution, Birthright

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• We do not support an automatic pathway to citizenship.

  Elaine Chao

  Support, Pathways

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• If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.

  Jackie Robinson

  Baseball, Class, People

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• ... work is only part of a man's life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of citizenship, all play a part in a well-rounded life. Workers are men and women with potentialities for mental and spiritual development as well as for physical health. We are paying the price today of having too long sidestepped all that this means to the mental, moral, and spiritual health of our nation.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Spiritual, Work, Educational

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• Part of comprehensive immigration reform is not just the path to citizenship for undocumented workers, but also the ability for families to be together.

  Pramila Jayapal

  Together, Immigration, Reform

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of God, as regular old mixed-up, worried, flawed, precious human beings.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Writing, Belief

  "Interview with Anne Lamott, Author of Help, Thanks, Wow". Interview with Jana Llewellyn, www.friendsjournal.org. January 30, 2013.

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• I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Mean, Government, Citizens

  "American Dreamer". www.motherjones.com. January/February 1997.

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• In the future, we will play games while floating naked in a tank of warm, sensory-depriving gelatin. Games will be distributed chemically, into the gelatin, and absorbed into the player's skin. The gelatin will be Lingonberry-flavored, and the games will encourage good citizenship.

  Tim Schafer

  Player, Games, Skins

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• We are dealing with the question of the 11 million people paying their taxes, having a path to legalization and, then, ultimately, to citizenship. Tough issues but we are coming together and I think we can do it.

  Dick Durbin

  Thinking, Issues, People

  "Sens. Dick Durbin and Bob Corker on chances of budget compromise; battle over GOP's future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace.", www.foxnews.com. March 17, 2013.

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• The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result of such a denial is a growing imbalance which leads to our adoration of self-interest and our denial of the public good.

  John Ralston Saul

  Acceptance, Self, Democracy

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who have come to the United States illegally should not be given amnesty or an easier path to citizenship over those already in line.

  Mitt Romney

  Immigration, United States, Lines

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• Citizenship to me is more than a piece of paper. Citizenship is also about character. I am an American. We're just waiting for our country to recognize it.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Country, Character, Waiting

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• When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think we would agree on that that's a more toxic and contentious issue, granting full amnesty.

  Herbert Spencer

  Thinking, Issues, Immigration

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• In the constitution of Spain as proposed by the late Cortes, there was a principle entirely new to me:... that no person born after that day should ever acquire the rights of citizenship until he could read and write. It is impossible sufficiently to estimate the wisdom of this provision. Of all those which have been thought of for securing fidelity in the administration of the government, constant reliance to the principles of the constitution, and progressive amendments with the progressive advances of the human mind or changes in human affairs, it is the most effectual.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Writing, Rights, Government

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• One of the significant reasons why women who are trafficked and forced to work as prostitutes often don't want to come forward is because they're worried they'll be deported. If the police are certain that a woman has been trafficked and forced into prostitution, then perhaps we should automatically allow her citizenship.

  Chester Brown

  Police, Want, Reason Why

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• History is the key to citizenship.

  Taylor Branch

  Keys

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Are we bereft of citizenship because we are mothers, wives and daughters of a mighty people? Have women no country--no interests staked in public weal--no liabilities in common peril--no partnership in a nation's guilt and shame?

  Angelina Grimke

  Daughter, Mother, Country

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.197, Penguin

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• Where do real conversations about citizenship occur? In our schools. Think about the things you learned in first grade. "My Country 'Tis of Thee," "I pledge allegiance to the flag," "America the Beautiful."

  Henry Louis Gates

  Beautiful, Country, Real

  "Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 21, 2013.

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• If we accept the logic of the Declaration, reverence for God is not just a matter of religious faith, it is the foundation of justice and citizenship in our republic.

  Alan Keyes

  Religious, Justice, Foundation

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• The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as Americans. The time is come - it is now - when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government.

  Peter Marshall

  God, Jesus, Tired

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• In your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself individually, but all of my sex, are, by your honor's verdict, doomed to political subjection under this, so-called, form of government.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Sex, Rights, Government

  "An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting: At the Presidential Election in Nov., 1872" by Susan B. Anthony, Rochester N.Y.: Daily democrat & chronicle book print, 1874.

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• I now have Croatian citizenship, but I only accepted it because Croatia allowed me to keep my Russian passport.

  Garry Kasparov

  Croatia, Accepted, Passports

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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