Citizens Quotes - Page 37

• In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens are dismantled or impoverished through the substitution of training for education.

  Henry Giroux

  Training, Spheres, Literacy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Only a well-organized movement of young people, educators, workers, parents, religious groups and other concerned citizens will be capable of changing the power relations and vast economic inequalities that have generated what has become a country in which it is almost impossible to recognize the ideals of a real democracy.

  Henry Giroux

  Country, Religious, Real

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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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• 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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• 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

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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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• 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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• 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

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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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• 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 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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• Congress decides who becomes a citizen and how. To automatically say the 14th Amendment grants birthright citizenship, no, we can't change that. Amending the Constitution, not possible, takes too long. We gotta find another way of dealing with this. No, we don't, because it's not there. You don't have to amend the Constitution.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Long, Way, Constitution

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• Everybody knows that if you're born in America, you are a citizen. No, you're not.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Born, Knows

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• I especially appreciated hearing the President [Barack Obama] affirm that "black lives matter" and that it means that some citizens are feeling more pain, and experiencing more negative effects than others, and he offered up the stats. He also indicated that black lives matter does not negate the fact that blue lives matter. He ably walked the tightrope, here, between affirming both black life and police life.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Pain, Mean, Blue

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• The truth is that we have to, as American citizens, stop thinking that this life that we're living, the things that we're dealing with, is some reality TV show. This is real life, real children, real situations.

  Stevie Wonder

  Children, Real, Thinking

  "This Hillary Clinton interview is my favorite of the entire 2016 election". "The Breakfast Club", www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2016.

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• I'm a citizen of the U.S.A but I also travel around the world and love other countries like the UK as if it was my own. I love your tolerance and preservation of the arts.

  will.i.am

  Country, Art, Love You

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• I think of myself as a global citizen.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Global Citizen

  Source: thesource.com

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• When anybody and everybody registers to vote, they do so under the penalty of perjury. They're signing a contract that they are 18 years of age or older and they're citizens of the United States.

  Audie Cornish

  Years, Age, United States

  Source: www.npr.org

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• People are discouraged from voting and part of what is important for Latino citizens is to make your voice heard, because you're not just speaking for yourself. You're speaking for family members, friends, classmates of yours in school.

  Barack Obama

  School, Voice, People

  "No, this video does not show Obama urging undocumented people to vote" by Caitlin Dewey and Abby Ohlheiser, www.washingtonpost.com. November 8, 2016.

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• I understood my personal responsibility in putting Christ on the cross and the implications of how the Gospel impacts every area of life. It informs my identity as a human, as an artist, and as a citizen of this country.

  Sho Baraka

  Country, Responsibility, Artist

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• We should use this public sphere and redefine - beyond China's borders - what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen's privacy begins.

  Ai Weiwei

  Government, Spheres, Borders

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Our responsibility as citizens is to keep doing our part.

  Hillary Clinton

  Responsibility

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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