Citizenship Quotes - Page 18

• Jeb Bush is getting his presidential campaign in gear. Last week he said he supports a path to citizenship for immigrants. He said, 'I believe in an America where hard work and dedication can lead to any job that your brother and dad once had.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Brother, Jobs, Dad

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• Hillary Clinton made a campaign stop in Las Vegas yesterday. She said she wants citizenship for undocumented immigrants. But after seeing Americans celebrate Cinco de Mayo yesterday, immigrants said, 'You know what, we're good. We're gonna head back now. We had enough.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Yesterday, Vegas, Campaigns

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• continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring. ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  Men, Feminism, Tools

  Ray Strachey, Eleanor Florence Rathbone (1936). “Our freedom and its results”

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• We're being overrun by people who live in poor and corrupt countries who come to the USA to get work. But we got to regain our sovereignty, we're going to control our border, and there will be border security tied to the pathway to citizenship. There will be an earned pathway to citizenship. It will be available to everybody who works hard, pays a fine, passes a background check.

  Lindsey Graham

  Country, Hard Work, Usa

  "Meet The Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. April 7, 2013.

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• I'm not opposed to letting people work and labor in our country, but we shouldn't provide an easy route to citizenship. We're the only country I know of where a person can come in illegally and that baby becomes a citizen and I think that should stop also.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Baby, Thinking

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• Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship.

  Alan Keyes

  Christian, Fundamentals, Moral

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• People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say we want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Opportunity, People, Track

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• One thing that concerns me is that today's young women don't seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women. They know there are no closed doors anymore, and they may take for granted the rights that they have.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Men, Rights, Doors

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Regardless of what ideological twist people may have, about 90 to 95 percent of our population [in Puerto Rico] really values our citizenship. It's of utmost importance.

  Ricky Rossello

  People, Twists, Population

  "Puerto Ricans Reflect On A Century Of (Limited) Citizenship". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. March 2, 2017.

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• The dirty little secret is Donald Trump's views are not all that different from the rest of the Republicans in the field. Nobody in the Republican field supports a path to citizenship. They're all pretty tough on immigration.

  Eleanor Clift

  Dirty, Views, Support

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will have better government in all of our countries when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their different areas of experience and their common concern for the welfare of their families and their world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Believe, Men

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• Immigration. There's two plans on the table. Hillary and I believe in comprehensive immigration reform. Donald Trump believes in deportation nation. You've got to pick your choice. Hillary and I want a bipartisan reform that will put keeping families together as the top goal, second, that will help focus enforcement efforts on those who are violent, third, that will do more border control, and, fourth, that will provide a path to citizenship for those who work hard, pay taxes, play by the rules, and take criminal background record checks.

  Tim Kaine

  Believe, Hard Work, Goal

  "Expanding the Debate: Ajamu Baraka Spars with Pence & Kaine in Democracy Now! Special–Part 2". www.democracynow.org. October 5, 2016.

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• Donald Trump proposes to deport 16 million people, 11 million who are here without documents. And both Donald Trump and Mike Pence want to get rid of birthright citizenship. So if you're born here, but your parents don't have documents, they want to eliminate that. That's another 4.5 million people.

  Tim Kaine

  People, Parent, Propose

  "Expanding the Debate: Ajamu Baraka Spars with Pence & Kaine in Democracy Now! Special–Part 2", www.democracynow.org. October 5, 2016.

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• Having music in the schools, having art in the schools, having art in your life, should not be heroic. It should be every day. Having things we've paid for years ago and that we depend on kept up - our schools, our political institutions - should not be a heroic act. It should be part of our daily citizenship. The idea that we had to do this incredibly exhausting, two-year-long, very expensive, labor intensive, community-based action, is, one the one hand unbelievably great, and, on the other hand, really depressing.

  David Lang

  Depressing, Art, School

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• Citizenship in New York is now worth no more than citizenship in Arkansas, for it is open to any applicant from the marshes of Bessarabia, and, still worse, to any applicant from Arkansas.

  H. L. Mencken

  New York, Arkansas, Marshes

  H. L. MENCKEN (1924). “PREJUDICES FOURTH SERIES”

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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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• 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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• 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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• ... 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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• 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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• We [Americans] really need a system that comprehensively looks at the fact that we need these workers in the United States, we need to be able to provide a pathway to citizenship. We need to be able to allow them to be here legally and to do the work that they are doing and that we need.

  Pramila Jayapal

  Pathways, United States, Needs

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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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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• 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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