American citizen Quote by Herman Melville

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

— Andy Warhol

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

Being born poor doesn't mean you will die poor,lest u want it that way.

— Moses Ekpu

The implication here is that those who came to America legally over the years are somehow second-class citizens.

— Mitch McConnell

We are an aspirational society. We believe that circumstances of your birth do not determine your outcome. You shouldn't have to be born to…

— Bobby Jindal

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

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

Being born into poverty does not mean you are condemned to spend the rest of your life in poverty.

— Kevin Harrington

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

We're all born into whatever citizenship, circumstances, or class we happen to be born into. Immigrants and so many people in the working class…

— Kali Uchis

Society, during the last hundred years, has been alternately perplexed and encouraged, respecting the two great questions -how shall the criminal and pauper be…

— Dorothea Dix

Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we…

— Barack Obama