Quotes About Citizen

On March 12, 1973, a big day, Wounded Knee declared itself a sovereign territory o the independent Oglala Nation. Anybody of goodwill, Indian or white, could become a citizen. Whatever one might say about AIM, it was never racist. As Crow Dog expressed it: "We don't want to fight the white man, but only the white man's system.

Soy ciudadano del universo"».

I can understand the feeling of a man struggling to escape the practical slavery imposed by the multitude of obligations which crowd upon a man who tries to be a good citizen. Root writes to Jack Morgan in 1927 about the Metropolitan Museum of Art, from Michael Gross' Rogues Gallery

plews." Glass paid the captain his full attention. Every citizen of St. Louis knew some version of Drouillard's story, but Glass had never heard a first-person account. "He did that twice, went out and came back with a pack of plews. Last thing he said before he left the third time was,

The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the one from 1793:

El crimen es precioso porque garantiza al gobierno la adhesión del ciudadano. ¿La patria? ¡Sálvese, general, yo sé lo que le digo; qué patria ni qué india envuelta! ¿Las leyes? ¡Buenas son tortas! ¡Sálvese, general, porque le espera la muerte!».

We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.

Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.

the form of citizen activism, global markets, and media scrutiny

Awakening is realizing that you are the citizen of the universe, rather than identifying yourself as the citizen of your own country or that of the world.

Diplomacy does not mean to become soft, but to be more cunning like a fox than the normal citizen. Killing two birds with one word.

My identity is that I am an African, even though I consider myself to be the citizen of the universe.

The citizen must enter into a relationship with his government. It is not just the task of a politician to engage with the government, rather it is the duty of every citizen.

The state must be free before any citizen declares himself or herself to be free too.

The word VOTE stands for Voice Of The Elector. Therefore, vote to let your point of view speak out for you.

A siren pierced the air, cutting off her breath. "Damn." A scowling Jessie pulled over to the side of the long, otherwise empty road. "I swear," the blonde muttered, "the hick cops have nothing better to do than hassle law-abiding citizen." "Jessie, we're actually—" "Shh. Think law-abiding thoughts.

The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners...

The Americans have their spies here, and we have our people over there. You, however, are not simply a spy. You're a Soviet citizen—and a traitor. An entirely different fate awaits you.

the fracturing of our society is grounded not in the weaknesses of a particular leader but in the inability of our institutions to deliver meaningful social progress for the average citizen.

It is no longer enough for the citizen to submit—the modern state demands accomplices.

The cause of democracy's stupidities is confidence in the anonymous citizen; and the cause of its crimes is the anonymous citizen's confidence in himself.

Well, so that's the prosecutor! He lived and lived, and then died! And they will say in the papers that he died to the regret of his staff and all mankind, a respected citizen, a rare father, a model husband, and they will write a lot more stuff and nonsense about him; they will add, maybe, that he was mourned by widows and orphans; but if one were to investigate the matter thoroughly, it will emerge that he had nothing to him except his bushy eyebrows.

In one of our government departments... but perhaps I had better not say exactly which one. For no one's more touchy than people in government departments, regiments, chancelleries or, in short, any kind of official body. Nowadays every private citizen thinks the whole of society is insulted when he himself is.