Citizenship Quotes

448 Citizenship quotes by 261 unique authors

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to… — Barack Obama
I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for… — Rand Paul
All great change in America begins at the dinner table. — Ronald Reagan
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time. — Jackie Robinson
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight. — Theodore Roosevelt
Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of… — Jonathan Sacks
The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt. — John Ralston Saul
I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to… — Howard Schultz
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.… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
America is my country and Paris is my hometown. — Gertrude Stein
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end. — Adlai E. Stevenson
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens. — Daniel Webster
If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is… — George Will
For the first time since 2007 there is political momentum behind fixing the immigration system. President Obama in his State of the Union speech reached… — Juan Williams
It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient. — Julian Baggini
Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to… — George Washington
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black,… — Frederick Douglass
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of… — Thomas Jefferson
...When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over… — Naomi Wolf
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. — Aristotle
The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege… — George S. Patton
Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit… — Michel Foucault
Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship. — Sarah Vowell
Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. — Michael Cunningham

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