America Quote by Anand Giridharadas

The American birthright belongs, potentially, to everyone. This is unprecedented. Other countries accept migrants on the basis of economic necessity or as a humanitarian…

— Bret Stephens

Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve…

— Eric Liu

When it comes to granting unconditional birthright citizenship, the United States and Canada are alone in the industrialized world: North American exceptionalism, you can…

— Anand Giridharadas

“Though Article II requires “natural born” citizenship, the Constitution does not explain what the phrase means. There was no constitutional definition of American citizenship…

— Garrett Epps

Therefore every person born within the United States, its territories or districts, whether the parents are citizens or aliens, is a natural born citizen…

— William Rawle

Citizenship is the right to have rights.

— Earl Warren

An America where every person, no matter their race, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our…

— Bernie Sanders

Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.

— Mark McKinnon

Congress should pass a law repealing birthright citizenship for children of foreign citizens, with the sole exception being children of legal permanent residents. Children…

— Tom Tancredo

All from other lands, who by the terms of [congressional] laws and a compliance with their provisions become naturalized, are adopted citizens of the…

— John Bingham

I was born in the U.S. Why should anyone who has an unfavorable view of the American government renounce his or her citizenship? Why…

— Mohammad Marandi

The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual…

— Mary Wollstonecraft