Citizenship Quotes - Page 20

• You must understand the environment in Pakistan. This has become a moneymaking concern. A lot of people say if you want to go abroad and get a visa for Canada or citizenship and be a millionaire, get yourself raped.

  Pervez Musharraf

  People, Pakistan, Want

  "Can Musharraf win back Pakistan?" by Syed Hamad Ali, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2010.

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• We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less . . . This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of men, yes, men, brave men, honest men, determined men.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Men, Brave, Democracy

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• Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political affiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic background, marital status, economic level, convenience, or previous experience.

  Erma Bombeck

  Religious, Motherhood, Political

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hate, Taken, Rights

  "Fictional character: Garbitsch". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history of the country, in any crisis and under any conditions, have our Jewish fellow citizens failed to live up to the highest standards of citizenship and patriotism.

  William Howard Taft

  Country, Heart, Giving

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2004). “The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers”

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• Remember the Dreamers whose patriotism was praised when the Democratic House passed, and the Senate filibustered - the DREAM Act in 2010? Washington promised a path to citizenship, not just a roadblock to deportation.

  Christine Pelosi

  Dream, House, Deportation

  "Feminists Must Advance Immigrants’ Rights as Women’s Rights" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Just to pile up money for my own sake, I just can't view that as good citizenship.

  Walter Annenberg

  Views, Sake, Prosperity

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• Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.

  Barack Obama

  Matter, Civility, Questioning

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I've already got the Kingdom of Heaven in my heart! That's my nationality, my citizenship, my Country!-A Country that's never persecuted the poor or oppressed the weak or destroyed small peoples of the World like America has. It's a Country that's never lost a battle and never fought a war for the wrong reason.

  David Berg

  Country, War, Heart

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• The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Friday, Destiny, Rights

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken from you.

  Laozi

  Taken, Humility, Merit

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• Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Canada, World, Ready

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• If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Fall, Political, Humanity

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll”

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• It was a failure of citizenship of the American people that the Bush cabal was allowed to invade Iraq. Thus, every U.S. citizen who is not doing everything in their power to end this illegal and immoral occupation as quickly as possible is complicit with the war crimes being committed in Iraq on a daily basis.

  Dahr Jamail

  War, Iraq, People

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• What we seek to advance, what we seek to develop in all of our colleges and universities, are educated men and women who can bear the burdens of responsible citizenship, who can make judgments about life as it is, and as it must be, and encourage the people to make those decisions which can bring not only prosperity and security, but happiness to the people of the United Sates and those who depend upon it.

  John F. Kennedy

  College, Men, People

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.718, Best Books on

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• I see no reason why Indians who can give satisfactory proof of having by their own labor supported their families for a number of years, and who are willing to detach themselves from their tribal relations, should not be admitted to the benefit of the homestead act and the privileges of citizenship, and I recommend the passage of a law to that effect. It will be an act of justice as well as a measure of encouragement.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Encouragement, Years, Law

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• I will argue until my last breath for a pathway to citizenship that is quick and efficient because I want to end this chapter. I want to end it...But let me say, conversely, I am as committed as any Republican to ending illegal immigration as we know it...They want to end it. So do I.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Pathways, Immigration, Want

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• Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.

  William J. Clinton

  Education, Creativity, Responsibility

  Clinton, William J. (1995). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1994”, p.1503, Best Books on

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• Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Doors, Essentials

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Apr 23, 2017

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• Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Heart, School, Responsibility

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• Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Self, Community

  "Rowan Williams: no one voted for coalition policies" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2011.

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• From a policy point of view, I don't think it's the right approach. I don't like the idea of having millions of people here for their entire life without being able to assimilate into America...From a political point of view, we've got 55 Democrats sent and a 72 percent support for a path to citizenship. It's just not practical to think we'll be able to pass any bill in the United States Senate without a path to citizenship.

  Lindsey Graham

  Thinking, Views, Ideas

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• Well, I don't think it is amnesty to start with. Second of all, what do you want to do with them? That is the question in response. And third of all, it is a tough path to citizenship. You have to pay back taxes. You've got to learn English. You've got to have a clear record. You've got to get to the back of the line behind other people who have come here legally or waiting legally. So, i just reject that.

  John McCain

  Thinking, People, Waiting

  "Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. John McCain on avoiding automatic spending cuts". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 10, 2013.

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• He had 'deep concerns' with the pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants under consideration by the group, calling it 'profoundly unfair' to legal immigrants.

  Ted Cruz

  Pathways, Immigration, Groups

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• I appreciate the good work that senators in both parties have put into trying to fix our broken immigration system. There are some good elements in this proposal, especially increasing the resources and manpower to secure our border and also improving and streamlining legal immigration. However, I have deep concerns with the proposed path to citizenship. To allow those who came here illegally to be placed on such a path is both inconsistent with rule of law and profoundly unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who waited years, if not decades, to come to America legally.

  Ted Cruz

  Party, Years, Law

  FaceBook post by Senator Ted Cruz from Jan 28, 2013

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