Citizenship Quotes - Page 2

• Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

  Martha Gellhorn

  House, Citizens, Occupation

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.336, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.

  John Shadegg

  Giving, Special, Borders

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• Business owners have made a strong case to me that they need guest workers. But none has suggested that these workers should be placed on a path to citizenship.

  John Shadegg

  Strong, Needs, Guests

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• The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Country, Rights, People

  "Senator Feinstein Supports Stronger Military Via Bill to End 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell'" by Craig Newmark, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2010.

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• As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Hands, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Women, Common, Suffrage

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1970). “A history of the national woman's rights movement”

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• Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.

  Ralph Barton Perry

  Voting, Mind, Citizens

  Ralph Barton Perry (1951). “The Citizen Decides: A Guide to Responsible Thinking in Time of Crisis”

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• Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.

  Linda Chavez

  Groups, Population, Half

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• Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.

  Tommy Chong

  Thinking, Might, Lost

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• What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Office, Important, Citizens

  Boston Record, April 14, 1903.

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• Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.

  Paul Robeson

  Sports, Art, Struggle

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

  O. Henry

  Country, Moving, Trying

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.517, ShandonPress

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• We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.

  Andrew Shue

  Character, People, Movement

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• The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.

  John L. Lewis

  Philosophy, Real, Government

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Country, India, Republic

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1949). “Speeches”

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• On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.

  Nathan Deal

  Country, Israel, Japan

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• No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.

  Kofi Annan

  Cutting, People, Democracy

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• Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Doe, May, Becoming

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• Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

  Charles Rangel

  Country, Government, Protection

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• Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.

  Richard Neal

  Country, Years, Paper

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• Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.

  George C. Marshall

  Government, Imagination, Democracy

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• Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

  Andrew Jackson

  Life, Country, 4th Of July

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

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• Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.

  Joe Baca

  Real, Character, People

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