Citizens Quotes

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  It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong Women, Equality, White

  Motto of The Revolution (newspaper), 8 Jan. 1868

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• The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Wisdom, Democracy, Apathy

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• I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

  Diogenes

  Book, Patriotic, Beer

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• There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Love, America, Energy

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• As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Law, Democracy, Abiding

  Speech in Chicago, Illinois, September 29, 1952.

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• Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

  Andrew Jackson

  Life, Country, 4th Of July

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.

  Clarence Day

  Responsibility, Good Day, Firsts

  Clarence Day (1997). “This Simian World”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Women, Class, House

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• Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us.

  Bob Taft

  Eye, Opportunity, Special

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• The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

  Gunter Grass

  Jobs, Freedom, Democracies Have

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• Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

  John Ralston Saul

  Keys, House, Secret

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'

  Sandra Bullock

  Daughter, Thinking, Ideas

  "She's Strong, She's Sexy, She's Sandra Bullock". Interview with Anne Fletcher, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2009.

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• Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.

  Mitch Daniels

  Real, Marijuana, Smoking

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• A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Moon, People

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• When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

  Noah Webster

  Country, Sacrifice, Men

  Noah Webster (1843). “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects”, p.303

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• No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions

  Roy Barnes

  Thinking, Government, Action

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• We care little about what the average citizen thinks.

  Tom Metzger

  Thinking, Average, House

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• The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

  Gerry Adams

  Class, Forever, Gone

  "Speech by Gerry Adams, then President of Sinn Féin, to a Sinn Féin selection convention in Navan, County Meath". CAIN in the University of Ulster, December 1, 2004.

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• Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.

  Alec Baldwin

  Home, Enemy, Innocence

  "Will They Go to Court?". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2006.

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• I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way, he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.

  Warren Beatty

  Believe, House, Public Opinion

  "Senator Bulworth vs. the Terminator" by Bill Schneider, www.cnn.com. September 23, 2005.

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• Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.

  Barbara Boxer

  Country, Political, Voting

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• There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

  Orson Scott Card

  Writing, House, Acting

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• I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Dream, Struggle, Usa

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• The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi.

  Medgar Evers

  Should, Gift From God, Mississippi

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• If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.

  Jane Fonda

  Pregnancy, People, Parent

  "Community-Based Doulas: A Good Investment in the Future" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2009.

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