Citizenship Quote by Melissa V. Harris-Perry

“At its best, citizenship finds an equilibrium between two essential ingredients -- that of rights and that of duties. When the idea of citizenship…

— Jim Stockdale

“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

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

— Ingrid Holm-Garibay

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected…

— John Rawls

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

— Martha Gellhorn

To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything…

— Eli Pariser

“The sale of citizenship is interesting not because it is scandalous or even morally reprehensible, but because it speaks to the very arbitrariness of…

— Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

“Each person possesses and inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override. For this reason, justice denies…

— John Rawls

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

— Chinua Achebe

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the…

— Anonymous

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