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• Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.

  Nick Mancuso

  Country, Growing Up, Two Nations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Mexican, House, Manhattan

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• We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Sister, Mother, Brother

  “'I Can’t Talk Fellowship': Lessons From the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in the Wake of the BP Oil Disaster" by Cherri Foytlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Land, Drawing, Soldier

  'Dreamers' (1918)

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• Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Heart, House, Mind

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• A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Law, Class, Government

  Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”

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• Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops.

  Marty Meehan

  Thinking, Troops, Okay

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• So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Pain, Cutting, Able

  "American Morning" with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2003.

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• Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Hands, Safety, Should

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• It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.

  Paul Begala

  House, Answers, Taught

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• I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.

  Jerry Hall

  House

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• My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.

  Lee Greenwood

  Blue, House, Personality

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• But I don't want anybody to say have the right to say well if you bloody Brits don't like it go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven't become a citizen.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Home, House, Want

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• During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Years, House, Heaven

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• I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.

  Bianca Jagger

  Class, House, Want

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• I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

  Fawn Hall

  Thinking, Rights, House

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• The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

  Laura Miller

  Dream, Sacrifice, Cities

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• By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

  Victoria Woodhull

  House, United States, Vote

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• Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.

  Alva Myrdal

  Country, Becoming, Prison

  Alva Myrdal, Cecilia Åse, Yvonne Hirdman (2002). “"Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982”

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• We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.

  Viktor Yanukovych

  Ukraine, President, Together

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• The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.

  Ida B. Wells

  Race, Law, Punishment

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2009). “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.

  Edward Everett

  Law, Battle, Athens

  Svend Petersen, Edward Everett (1963). “The Gettysburg addresses: the story of two orations”

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• Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.

  Jane Byrne

  Cities, Chicago, Tonight

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• I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

  Bao ?ai

  Country, Independent, Emperor

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• We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.

  Matt Drudge

  Voice, Eras, Reporters

  Speech to the National Press Club on Media and the Internet, delivered 2 June 1998

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