Citizenship Quotes - Page 8

• That's not a utopian vision. It is a set of ideas that we think are important to discuss. Those ideas largely have to do with sustainability of cities. The ability of cities to, over time, remain in balance with the resource streams that are available to them, and they have to do with social justice and equity of the fundamental conditions of satisfactory citizenship.

  William J. Mitchell

  Thinking, Cities, Ideas

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I believe in the admission of women to the full rights of citizenship and share in government, on the express grounds that few women keep house so badly or with such wastefulness as chancellors of the exchequer keep the state.

  Theodore Parker

  Believe, Rights, Government

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• The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, Purpose, Form

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.301, Best Books on

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• You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American.

  Eric Liu

  Class, Citizens, Paper

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• The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of 'anchor babies' must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into our country. Now is the time to ensure that the laws in this country do not encourage law-breaking.

  Steve King

  Country, Baby, Anchors

  "Steve King Introduces Bill To Stop ‘Anchor Babies’" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2013.

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• I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Good Citizenship, Good Citizen

  "Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut".

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• In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and purpose as is being inside to eat, sleep, make shoes or love or music. The word citizen has to do with cities, and the ideal city is organized around citizenship -- around participation in public life.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Sleep, Cities, Shoes

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.136, Penguin

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• Citizenship means standing up for everyone's right to vote.***

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Vote, Standing

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Mean

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• Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.

  Mark McKinnon

  Party, Liberty, Legacy

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• Why should there not be a European group which could give a sense of enlarged patriotism and common citizenship to the distracted peoples of this turbulent and mighty continent? And why should it not take its rightful place with other great groupings and help to shape the onward destinies of men?

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Destiny, Men

  Address on Unified Cooperation in Europe, delivered 19 September 1946, Zurich, Switzerland

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• A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little more than rituals.

  Ralph Nader

  Dark, Age, Abdication

  Ralph Nader (2000). “The Ralph Nader Reader”, p.344, Seven Stories Press

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• To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulne­ss while telling carefully constructe­d lies, to hold simultaneo­usly two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradict­ory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy.

  George Orwell

  Honesty, Integrity, Lying

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have dual citizenship; I would be happy to go to England. I would be very happy to go to America.

  John McAfee

  America, Would Be, England

  "John McAfee uses live broadcast to reaffirm desire to return to US" by Amanda Holpuch, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2012.

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• Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon.

  Walter Russell Mead

  Done, Lebanon, Jordan

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• I’d rather see the United States as a beacon of Good Work and Good Citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

  Howard Gardner

  Educational, United States, Measurement

  "Living Legends: An Interview With Howard Gardner". Interview with Matthew Lynch, Ed.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2012.

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• The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.

  Michael D. Higgins

  Heart, Years, Creating

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained.

  Haile Selassie

  Dream, Philosophy, Eye

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• In the midst of wanton aggression, we still call upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to return to the ways of peace and play their part in the development of the State, with full and equal citizenship and due representation in its bodies and institutions - provisional or permanent.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Play, Israel, Development

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• I was born in the U.S. Why should anyone who has an unfavorable view of the American government renounce his or her citizenship? Why don't its supporters relinquish their citizenship first?

  Mohammad Marandi

  Government, Views, Firsts

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One simple rule: no amnesty, no special pathway to citizenship.

  Mitt Romney

  Simple, Special, Pathways

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• With these 11 million people here illegally, let's have them registered, know who they are, those that are her paying taxes and not taking government benefits should begin a process towards application for citizenship.

  Mitt Romney

  Government, People, Paying Taxes

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• Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.

  Bill Crawford

  Heart, Successful, Land

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• There is no global anthem, no global currency, no certificate of global citizenship. We pledge allegiance to one flag, and that flag is the American flag.

  Donald Trump

  Anthem, American Flag, Currency

  "Trump: There Is No Global Flag, No Global Currency, No Global Citizenship. We Will Be United As Americans" by Tim Hains, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 1, 2016.

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• The only way we can keep our freedom is to work at it. Not some of us. All of us. Not some of the time, but all of the time. So if you value your citizenship and you want to keep it for yourself and your children and their children, give it your faith, your belief, and give it your active support in civic affairs.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Children, Giving, Support

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