Citizenship Quotes · Page 4

Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day.

— Barack Obama

The grossest insult is crumbled before the gentlest irony.

— Ilkin Santak

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

— Henry David Thoreau

Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world

— Anonymous

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Love of country is the Mason's deed; world citizenship is his thought.

— Benjamin Franklin

The14th Amendment does not require birthright citizenship. It doesn't mention it.

— Rush Limbaugh

I have applied for Israeli citizenship, which makes playing overseas a bit easier.

— Sue Bird

“Until there is equal and fair portion of opportunities apportioned for every citizen, the power structure may need to be restructured.”

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Robert Kennedy

I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.

— Antonio Banderas

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

— Anonymous

True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.

— Eric Liu

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

— Phyllis Schlafly

A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian. And you devalue the citizenship of every Canadian in this place and in this…

— Justin Trudeau

If citizen is legally forced to recognize the sovereignty of the state - there cannot be any speech about freedom.

— Ilkin Santak

“Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another's point of view, but instead were more and more enclosed in our own…

— Eli Pariser

The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never…

— Peter Drucker

As I wrote Working toward Whiteness, I came to see one historic task on the New Deal - and one in which…

— David Roediger

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all…

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

Told reporters Wednesday he can support a pathway to citizenship for some of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and…

— Darrell Issa

In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of…

— Rebecca Solnit

If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal…

— George Will

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for…

— John F. Kennedy

Any new pathway to citizenship is completely off the table ... [Illegal immigrants should be able to get citizenship] the same way…

— Raul Labrador

With all of the talk about polling and demographics, I think too many people have lost touch with the human and moral…

— Arlene Holt Baker

I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When…

— J. K. Rowling

“I will be the first. As of tonight, I renounce my citizenship in the United Nations, and my allegiance to the Shelter…

— James Blish

It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many…

— Calvin Coolidge

“It makes me wonder what belonging to a place means. Charles died a Russian in Paris. Viktor called it wrong and was…

— Edmund de Waal

“At its best, citizenship finds an equilibrium between two essential ingredients -- that of rights and that of duties. When the idea…

— Jim Stockdale

I appreciate the good work that senators in both parties have put into trying to fix our broken immigration system. There are…

— Ted Cruz

If knowledge does not bring money, the book is its place, not the brain.

— Ilkin Santak

The lack of cultural segregation leads to degradation.

— Ilkin Santak

You are your own temple and you find tranquility being confined to yourself.

— Ilkin Santak

Talking about freedom in the country where people are afraid of losing their jobs is absurdity.

— Ilkin Santak

Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts.

— Ilkin Santak

Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

— Oprah Winfrey

If there's amnesty leading to citizenship, I'm going to vote against it again.

— Frank Wolf

Even if a lie has hundred nipples, none of them gives milk.

— Ilkin Santak