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Let us give future generations the gift of Earth citizenship by first giving it to ourselves. — Ilchi Lee

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession. — Phyllis Schlafly

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand. — Frantz Fanon

One simple rule: no amnesty, no special pathway to citizenship. — Mitt Romney

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship. — Sarah Vowell

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant. — H. Rap Brown

Bordoni and his wife fled to Venezuela, where he used some of the stolen money to buy a $3 million home and citizenship.103 — Gerald Posner

If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship. — Eddie Vedder

I have never concealed my dual citizenship. People involved in state business should probably declare their dual citizenship if they have it. — Gennady Timchenko

I consider writing an act of good citizenship. — Kurt Vonnegut

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship. — Robert Reich

We do not support an automatic pathway to citizenship, — Elaine Chao

As becomes more obvious every day, good citizenship is highly unpopular. — Kurt Vonnegut

If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed. — David H. Hackworth

Political citizenship has progressed, while social citizenship has regressed. — Pierre Rosanvallon

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship. — Calvin Coolidge

Arizona is in the midst of a fiscal crisis. We've cut school funding. And they pass a bill questioning Obama's citizenship? For real? — Kyrsten Sinema

We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship. — Jennifer Pahlka

What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows. — Zoe Lofgren

You can't write novels without a touch of paranoia. I'm paranoid as an act of good citizenship, concerned about what the powerful people are up to. — Kurt Vonnegut

Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. — Michael Cunningham

I'm not American. I still have my Japanese citizenship. — Masi Oka

Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly civilized. — Herb Kawainui Kane

Without a serious study of journalism, there can be no understanding of citizenship, democracy, or community. — Roy Peter Clark

Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay. — Gary Miller

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong. — Charles Handy

Citizenship rights is about making all Iranians feel they are part of one nation, one identity, under one umbrella they can feel proud of. — Hassan Rouhani

Citizenship means standing up for everyone's right to vote.*** — Barack Obama

And we'll build a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants who are already contributing to our economy! — Hillary Clinton

Citizenship means every four years you put a mark somewhere and you go home and let other guys run the world. It's a very destructive ideology. — Noam Chomsky

Our citizenship is in eternity; history is our temporary residence. — Erwin Raphael McManus

Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country? — Gwen Ifill

He talked about democracy and good citizenship and about a good world where everyone did the best he could for the common good of all. — Betty Smith

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write! — H.G.Wells

Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens. — Lester Beall

I think that anybody who works and pays taxes ought to have a right for citizenship, — Cruz Bustamante

I strongly support not just citizenship classes but also teaching children how the law works and the many ways it affects their lives. — Cherie Blair

Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship. — Alan Keyes

From the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship — Amiri Baraka

I want to declare my Citizenship in the Kingdom of God and my allegiance to His Kingdom and His City! — David Berg

I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship. — Bharati Mukherjee

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
[As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment] — Socrates

We are world citizens, but tribal chiefs won't let us cross the frontier — Bangambiki Habyarimana

The Know Nothings fought to delay citizenship for the new immigrants and bar them from voting. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Dreaming is the opportunity to hold a citizenship in two worlds, equally real but with different logic and limitations. — William C. Dement

I still passionately support comprehensive immigration reform legislation with a path to full and equal citizenship. — Hillary Clinton

Amend Constitution to remove aliens' birthright citizenship. — Ron Paul

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship. — Mark Steyn

Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship. — Nellie L. McClung

The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. — John Stuart Mill

Governments represent their citizens in the same way as parasites represent their hosts. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

But simply someone who broke the law, came here, say, 'I'll give you citizenship now,' that I don't think is going to happen. — Bob Goodlatte

I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets always return in flesh or on paper. — Joseph Brodsky

I have no interest in Israeli citizenship ... Israel does not want me, nor do I want Israel. — Mordechai Vanunu

With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home. — James A. Michener

Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied grants of power. — Hugo Black

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind. — James Meredith

I don't say women's rights - I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

A path to citizenship for those who are here illegally in my view is unfair to those waiting sometimes a decades in line to come here. — Ted Cruz

France was the first country in Europe to grant Jews the full rights of citizenship without qualification. — Leon Uris

I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen. — Antonio Banderas

Citizens Debt has been helping people with reliable debt advice and other services in solving their debt problems. — Citizenship And Immigration Services

Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong. — Mahatma Gandhi

You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities. — Paul Collier

Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being. — David Blunkett

Christians have a dual citizenship - on earth and in heaven - and our citizenship in heaven ought to make us better people here on earth. — Warren W. Wiersbe

Good government is no substitute for self-government. — Mahatma Gandhi

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time. — Jackie Robinson

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all. — Charles B. Rangel

Of all the studies by which men acquire citizenship of the intellectual commonwealth, no single one is so indispensable as the study of the past. — Bertrand Russell

I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service. — Ronald Reagan

I think it's important to live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy. — Kurt Vonnegut

The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country. — Bainbridge Colby

Tax is citizenship's rent. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient. — Julian Baggini

Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship. — Phyllis Schlafly

If there is no discipline, there is anarchy. Good citizenship demands attention to responsibilities as well as rights. — Joe Clark

My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along. — Sarah Vowell

History is the key to citizenship. — Taylor Branch

There should be a pathway to citizenship - not a special pathway and not no pathway. — Jason Chaffetz

To love country means to rise above I am because I am. It is to recognize that I am because we are. — Eric Liu

Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights. — Eric Liu

Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants. — Margaret Thatcher

The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community. — Norman Cousins

Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party. — Mark McKinnon

Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles. — Dennis Kucinich

Yes, Europe needs to be more welcoming, but that's only half of it. Muslims need to embrace the obligations of European residence and citizenship. — David Ignatius

No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted. — Jane D. Hull

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

The first step in becoming a global citizen is stripping away the preconceptions of how things should be in order to see things for what they are. — Colleen Mariotti

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped. — Victoria Woodhull

If I had to choose between baseball's Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship. — Jackie Robinson

We started a movement ... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people. — Andrew Shue

You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American. — Eric Liu

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

Emember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. — James A. Garfield

I am a citizen of the world. — Sylvia Beach

One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense. — Richard Brookhiser

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government. — Dwight D. Eisenhower