Quotes About Citizenship

Soon after Donald Trump was inaugurated, I got a letter from France's interior ministry informing me that I was now French. By the time it arrived, I'd been French for nearly two weeks without even knowing it.

What's wrong is that we are not participating to make this the type of government it needs to be.

Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.

Our laws are ultimately all that protect us from tyranny, and before them we are all equal - prime ministers and private citizens alike.

In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.

The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.

I am so proud to be Ukrainian, and I'm also so proud to be an American.

It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.

Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism.

We are at our best when we give the ultimate sacrifice of putting other people, putting the country, putting our communities ahead of ourselves.

I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.

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

It's not only inhumane to treat Puerto Ricans as second-class citizens. It's deeply un-American.

When you become a citizen, you are an American and questioning somebody's Americanness because they disagree with you - is about one of the most un-American things I can think of.

The old racism of imperialism not only rendered the postwar political elite unable to see black people as full British citizens, it provided them with a whole glossary of stereotypes and preconceptions that they then deployed in order to justify their aim of introducing immigration controls.

Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.

The Russian Federation's practice of instant citizenship, whereby Russian passports are distributed willy-nilly to ethnic Russians abroad so they can be 'protected' in their current homeland, is unacceptable. Passports are travel documents, not a tool to justify aggression.

We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

The man who has half a million of dollars in property... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property.

But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.

It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

If every single Jew born anywhere in the world has the right to become an Israeli citizen, then all the Palestinians who were chucked out of Palestine by the Zionist Government should have the same right, very simple.