Citizens Quotes

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I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a… — Bianca Jagger
The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem. — Michael Chabon
I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir. — Fawn Hall
I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks. — Harold Pinter
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say. — Ramsey Clark
The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above… — Laura Miller
By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States? — Victoria Woodhull
My administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most… — Barack Obama
My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen. — George Bernard Shaw
If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country is… — Jimmy Carter
Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty. — Orson Scott Card
Al-Awlaki was born here, he is an American citizen. He was never tried or charged for any crimes. No one knows if he killed anybody.… — Ron Paul
Democracy depends on citizens being informed, and since our media, especially television (which is the most important source of news for most Americans) reports mostly… — Howard Zinn
So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in… — H. L. Mencken
I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business! — Rand Paul
Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of… — Aristotle
There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The facts are in, the science is beyond question. Sugar in all its forms is the root cause of our obesity epidemic and most of… — Mark Hyman, M.D.
In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first… — Thomas Jefferson
I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself… — James Boswell
When Laura Poitras asked me if she could film our encounters, I was extremely reluctant. I'm grateful that I allowed her to persuade me. The… — Edward Snowden
I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver… — Bharati Mukherjee
However it may be for others, for us of the Citizen Army there is but one ideal - an Ireland ruled, and owned, by Irish… — James Connolly
I mean ... to let you know how deeply I am impressed with a sense of the importance of Amendments; that the good people may… — Samuel

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