““At its best, citizenship finds an equilibrium between two essential ingredients -- that of rights and that of duties. When the idea of citizenship is losing its grip, one or the other of these elements becomes eroded. Either freedom is on the losing end, or the sense of duty, of obligation, goes down the drain. We are living in a time when the idea of citizenship has been seriously weakened. We have a strong sense of the rights of a citizen. But we've lost much of the sense of the corresponding duties and obligations of citizenship.””
![“[American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only…” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d67/barack-obama-17_accepting_american-citizenship-captures-the-enduri_502282.jpg)
