Citizenship Quotes · Page 20

When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing…

— Saint Basil

In Puerto Rico, we continue to see the perpetuation of second-class citizenship in the United States.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

We [Americans] really need a system that comprehensively looks at the fact that we need these workers in the United States, we…

— Pramila Jayapal

The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged…

— George Washington

Those two principles: We're supposed to love one another and we're supposed to work together to make the experience better. That's all…

— Mario Cuomo

We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a…

— Michael D. Higgins

Crucially, I'd like to thank Labour party members up and down the country for sticking with us. For their active citizenship, their…

— David Blunkett

In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what…

— Karen DeCrow

From these activists we can learn a crucial lesson: without citizens creating the institutions necessary for facilitating the growth of public deliberation,…

— Kevin Mattson

The only way of the regular development is: thesis - antithesis - synthesis. Everything else is just a chimera.

— Ilkin Santak

“At its heart, civility is the disposition of those who understand that we live together to flourish together—that the wellbeing of our…

— Diane Kalen-Sukra

There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle…

— Joan Claybrook

Well, I don't think it is amnesty to start with. Second of all, what do you want to do with them? That…

— John McCain

I have no interest in Israeli citizenship... Israel does not want me, nor do I want Israel.

— Mordechai Vanunu

Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis…

— Robert Kennedy

Immigration. There's two plans on the table. Hillary and I believe in comprehensive immigration reform. Donald Trump believes in deportation nation. You've…

— Tim Kaine

The public citizenship oath done in a court in front of a judge and one's fellow citizens should be done publicly.

— Jason Kenney

Accuracy is not only in the home. Philosophers often bring accuracy to their thoughts.

— Ilkin Santak

For the first time since 2007 there is political momentum behind fixing the immigration system. President Obama in his State of the…

— Juan Williams

“Finding an access to the ‘open public space’ is the challenge that really matters in life. We may know that everyone might…

— Erik Pevernagie

If you are insulted for your sarcasm, that means you hit the target you killed the person you mocked on.

— Ilkin Santak

Even if there's no way to stop U.S. corporations from shedding their U.S. identities and becoming foreign corporations, there's no reason they…

— Robert Reich

The CAA is not a law to remove someone from the country. Union home minister Amit Shah has said that it is…

— Uddhav Thackeray

We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white…

— Malcolm X

I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and…

— Rick Riordan