Accident Quote by Eric Liu

But simply someone who broke the law, came here, say, 'I'll give you citizenship now,' that I don't think is going to happen.

— Bob Goodlatte

Citizenship is a privilege. We don't grant it to people because they think they deserve it. What have you done for the United States?

— Jeanine Pirro

Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket…

— Frederick Douglass

Just to pile up money for my own sake, I just can't view that as good citizenship.

— Walter Annenberg

I consider writing an act of good citizenship.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

— Martha Gellhorn

Birthright citizenship in America is part of something larger: The American longing to sever from history, to be a place of new beginnings.

— Anand Giridharadas

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

— H. Rap Brown

The burden of citizenship is accepting that what is neither your fault nor your responsibility may be your problem.

— Anand Giridharadas

As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is…

— Eric Liu

I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the…

— Emily Mortimer

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