Allegiance Quote by Henry Louis Gates

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When…

— Eric Liu

One of the revelations in that book [Lincoln in the Bardo] for me was this idea about citizenship. Even that word - citizenship -…

— George Saunders

Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Many people constantly talk about their rights, but citizenship also comes with duties.”

— Ingrid Holm-Garibay

Citizenship to me is more than a piece of paper. Citizenship is also about character. I am an American. We're just waiting for our…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.

— Sarah Vowell

We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal…

— Geneva Overholser

I don't really understand sometimes the national conversation on immigration.

— Francis X. Suarez

When you become a citizen, you are an American and questioning somebody's Americanness because they disagree with you - is about one of the…

— Pete Buttigieg

“Citizenship is a way of being in the world rooted in the knowledge that I am a member of a vast community of human…

— Parker J. Palmer

Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter…

— Thomas Paine

Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath…

— Eric Liu