Quotes About Citizenship

The sanctity of ballot should not be trampled.

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.

Full financial citizenship means more than just a savings account and a way to transfer money and pay bills. It also requires access to credit along with the ability to accept payments and run a business, send money to family or transact business across borders, contribute to the community and help others in need, and invest for the future.

Foreigners may be admitted to citizenship by naturalization, either collectively or individually. Collective naturalization may occur when a foreign territory and its inhabitants are transferred to the United States.

We gotta educate the kids. You've got to do your job as a citizen, but the same time, you have to also give the tools to the society to learn and create their habits so it's a seamless transition to become a better society.

I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but I am an American citizen and my books are published here, so I'm also an American writer.

The country's future is what you will make it. Make your local representatives in parliament and assembly more answerable. Ask for more transparency in use of public funds.

Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.

We need to keep pressure on our own governments to force more and more transparency.

Formerly man had only a body and a soul. Now he needs a passport as well for without it he will not be treated like a human being.

Früher hatte der Mensch nur einen Körper und eine Seele. Heute braucht er noch einen Pass dazu, sonst wird er nicht wie ein Mensch behandelt.

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The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.

I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

I've always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it. And that's what we're supposed to be about in America. Freedom of speech.

Families have a citizenship which is divine. The identity card they have is given to them by God. So that within the heart of the family, truth, goodness and beauty may truly grow.

passport indicates he lived there before coming to the United States." "I

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

It's the country that would have him, since he lacked the necessary papers for more promising places.

Democracy is like a great play. It lasts more than one act. You must be patient

To imagine Canada as a citizen requires that you enter into he mind of someone who does not believe what you believe or share what matters to you.

a surprising number of the people responsible for them were first-generation Americans who had come from places without well-functioning governments. People who had lived without government were more likely to find meaning in it. On the other hand, people who had never experienced a collapsed state were slow to appreciate a state that had not yet collapsed

Page 286: Common sense on this subject tends to be warded off by ritual invocation of the cliché that we are "a nation of immigrants." In fact, the United States is not a nation of immigrants, and never has been. At no point in American history have people born abroad constituted more than a minority of the U.S. population