Citizenship Quotes - Page 9

• The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.

  George S. Patton

  Military, Army, Soldier

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• [There are] seven gifts God gives you when you commit your life to Christ: a new relationship, a new citizenship, a new family, a new purpose, a new power, a new destiny, and a new journey.

  Billy Graham

  New Relationship, Journey, Destiny

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.35, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate.

  Geneva Overholser

  Country, America, Suffering

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• The most adorable thing about Toronto is that she remains fiercely aloof and indifferent to the fads and entrepreneurial fevers of her lovers. She is intractably herself, admissive to the most vagrant, sober in a way that gets misinterpreted as stodginess. Her generosity extends to the meek as well as the gold diggers. Mercifully, she doesn't give a hoot about our portraits of her, but just waits, patiently, for our affection and citizenship.

  Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

  Giving, Adorable, Generosity

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• I have no plans to seek asylum in the U.S. or elsewhere. I have not thought about citizenship. I love my country, the only problem I have is with the government.

  Feyisa Lilesa

  Country, Government, Asylums

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• People are demanding their rights and not backing down and I hope that change is on the horizon and change will come to Ethiopia soon, so I don't have even go that far to seek a U.S. citizenship.

  Feyisa Lilesa

  Rights, People, Horizon

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• Having my Canadian citizenship is a blessing at this time, and there's a part of me that feels very much one foot in and one foot out, and I know I can go back to Canada whenever. There are a lot of things that Canada does really well are the same things that are very messed up in the U.S., but I know that's a pretty self-centered stance. I don't know. It can be pretty discouraging, particularly in a city like New York. It's hard to see so many of the issues happening in the country in an up close way, but at the same time, there's a sense of positive solidarity here.

  Tei Shi

  Country, Blessing, Solidarity

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I always say there's no ticket of admission for active citizenship. Anybody can get through that gate, and anybody can ask that basic question that gets the ball rolling.

  Ralph Nader

  Gates

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Antonin Scalia was saying, and Donald Trump knows this as well, the answer to it is not to punish people, to shut 'em up, to put 'em in jail. The answer is more speech. If there's some clown burning the flag, drape yourself in the flag and go run around right in the guy's face and start telling him how much you love America. Donald Trump's not gonna put anybody in jail. He's not gonna strip their citizenship. This is how Donald Trump tells people what he thinks about it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Thinking, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag -if they do, they must be consequences -perhaps loss of citizenship or year in a jail.

  Donald Trump

  Loss, American Flag, Consequence

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I take my citizenship extremely seriously. I find myself drawn to the Constitution more and more with each passing day of Donald Trump's presidency.

  Samantha Bee

  Constitution

  "The Entrée at Samantha Bee’s Alternative White House Press Dinner? Trump Roast". Interview With David Corn, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2017.

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• Citizenship has been out of fashion for some decades in our country, but now it is back in fashion. Weekends are for fighting tyranny. And that's why it's going to be really fun to see Democracy Now!

  Donald Trump

  Country, Fashion, Fun

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Singapore and China, which don't want to encourage democratic citizenship, are expanding their humanities curricula. These reforms are all about developing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Humanity, Innovation, Reform

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• It is true that the principle of national citizenship, associated with rights, and the control of a country's borders are two key aspects of modern 'sovereign' nation states as they emerged in the Westphalian order. But there has been much progress since 1648.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Keys, Rights

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

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• Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!

  Donald Trump

  Loss, Years, Jail

  Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump, twitter.com. November 29, 2016.

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• We call for a welcoming path to citizenship, an end to police violence, and a transformed foreign policy based on international law and human rights - not based on these policies of regime change and economic and military domination.

  Jill Stein

  Military, Law, Police Violence

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• My heavenly citizenship makes the whole world a foreign mission field.

  Roland Smith

  World, Fields, Missions

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• When someone who wields political power does something you dislike or disagree with, it's incumbent upon you to object, criticize, and demand a different course. Those who refuse to do so are abdicating the most basic duty of citizenship and rendering themselves impotent.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Political, Demand, Doe

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• Since the days of Greece and Rome the word 'citizen' was a title of honor. We have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

  Robert Kennedy

  Responsibility, Rights, Rome

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

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• One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on a British, European Union passport and a green card, was my identification with the United States in the post-September 11th period.

  Christopher Hitchens

  United States, Cards, Unions

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It's a tough path to citizenship. You've got 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 even waiting legally.

  John McCain

  People, Waiting, Pay

  "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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• I'm not a Communist. I'm an American. I'm a capitalist. I mean, I'm not a very good capitalist, myself. I'm not very good at it, but it's not that I'm not for capitalism. But people who believe in things like corporate citizenship, it's idiotic. I mean, it shows you're an idiot.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Believe, Mean, People

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2011.

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• Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain extent citizenship. Any relationship less than "married" is considered temporary and not worthy of honor.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  America, Honor, Married

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• It is one of the great goals of my administration to invigorate the spirit of involvement and citizenship. We will encourage faith-based and community programs without changing their mission.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Goal, Community

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• The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Country, Acting, Actors

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