Citizens Quotes - Page 33

• In fact, one day I was going to Jackson and I saw a huge sign that U.S. Senator John Stennis was speaking that night for the White Citizens Council in Yazoo City and they also have a State Charter that they may set up for "private schools." It is no secret.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  School, Night, Cities

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• It is our right to stay here and we will stay and stand up for what belongs to us as American citizens, because they can't say that we haven't had patience.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  American Citizens, Havens

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• The crown jewel of Dr. King`s movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens.

  Jesse Jackson

  Kings, Jewels, Drs

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I'm going to fight for every citizen of every background from every stretch of America.

  Donald Trump

  Fighting, America, Backgrounds

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• What's interesting is this election year has made the citizen groups off-limits. All these citizen groups? - local, state, national? - that really do things and improve the country, they're never asked to be in these electoral campaign discussions.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Years, Interesting

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Whenever I visit an industrialized nation that isn't the United States, it immediately becomes apparent how much more educated and informed and aware of international events their citizens are compared to Americans.

  Jim Goad

  United States, Events, Educated

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• Voters decided otherwise [on me as a president candidate] and I will focus on my work here in the Senate because I have nine months left. And after that, later, as a private citizen, I will continue looking for a way to contribute to the cause of political conservatism to help our state and our country and the issues that interest me. But I really don't want to be nor do I think that I will be invited to be any candidate's vice president.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Thinking, Issues

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• Kathy Shelton was a private citizen whose life was destroyed.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Destroyed

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• I completely agree with the concept that American citizens shouldn't expect that a failure of a bank would cost them money, or that it would hurt the economy.

  Jamie Dimon

  Hurt, Cost, Economy

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school. Five years later, a quarter of us were in SDS, in Students for Democratic Society. Not because we were particularly chosen or because we were as I say, we were lucky but we were mainly luckily to grow up at a time where this black freedom movement was really defining the moral character of what it meant to be a citizen and a person.

  Bill Ayers

  Growing Up, School, Character

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm really proud of the album. It's something I always wanted to do but I had to wait until I was ready. Shakespeare is a culmination of eight years of stand up experience and joke writing. I recorded two shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York. The crowds were great and that's what really makes an album.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  New York, Writing, Eight

  "Comedian Anthony Jeselnik: “He’s The Best!” -Everybody". Interview With David Dean, www.serialoptimist.com. November 29, 2010.

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• We have, in the same way, relegated our own responsibility in what happens to our country to the specialists, who are supposed to take care of it, and the individual citizen does not feel that he can judge, and even that he should judge, and take any responsibility. I think there are quite a number of recent developments which show that.

  Erich Fromm

  Country, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• The individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making.

  Erich Fromm

  Decision, Littles, Opinion

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible, and acts responsibly, and participates in decision-making.

  Erich Fromm

  Decision, Democracy, Individual

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I understand by socialism a society in which the aim of production is not profit, but the use. In which the individual citizen participates responsibly in his work, and in the whole social organization, and in which he is not a means who is employed by capital.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Organization, Use

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Phil Hicks was the guy that was in the ROTC, that was going to go into the Vietnam War and thought that was the responsibility of the citizen.

  Judd Nelson

  War, Responsibility, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Seven out of 10 Americans, they do not like the direction our country is going. Many of our fellow citizens feel alienated and have lost faith in our core institutions. They don't feel heard and they don't feel represented by those in office.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Office, Seven

  Source: time.com

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• We have two responsibilities when it comes to an election as citizens. We have the responsibility to vote and then to honor that vote, even if we disagree with it. That doesn't mean that we blindly follow. It just means we can't afford the president to fail.

  Glenn Beck

  Mean, Responsibility, Two

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• There's nothing in the 14th Amendment that says if you are born to a mother who is a citizen that you're automatically a citizen. It isn't there. Even some of our presidential candidates think that it is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mother, Thinking, Presidential

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• The Constitution is very clear: Congress has sole discretion over defining who is and who isn't a citizen and how you become one. It's not the 14th Amendment.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Defining, Constitution, Amendments

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• The Constitution says Congress has complete control over who is and who is not a US citizen.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Constitution, Congress

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• Even the Supreme Court, back when it used to makes sense, the Supreme Court has never ruled that a baby born to illegal aliens in the US is automatically a citizen.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Baby, Back When, Aliens

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• The 14th Amendment is very questionable as to whether or not somebody can come over, have a baby and immediately that baby is a citizen.

  Donald Trump

  Baby, Amendments, Questionable

  "Donald Trump: 'I have to do right thing' on immigration". Interview with Chris Cuomo, edition.cnn.com. August 19, 2015.

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• They want people to believe the Constitution says that if you are born to on a illegal alien mother, that you are automatically an American citizen. They want to insist that that's what the Constitution says, but it doesn't.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mother, Believe, People

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• The Supreme Court has never ruled that the children of illegal aliens are American citizens.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Children, Aliens, Illegal

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