Quotes About Citizenship

less likely than native-born Americans to commit crimes.

my credo, "Oftimes it seems to me, 'patriotic' rhymes with 'idiotic,

I didn't want to pry. I felt like one of those typical white boys who didn't understand a thing. Who didn't even know, until a Japanese boy told me, that his family was not allowed citizenship. Maybe he wouldn't have minded my trying to learn. But I felt intimidated by my own ignorance, sure that every word out of my mouth would be a mistake.

Snow White gets a Social Security card. She gets a job building houses out in California. Picks oranges.

Wenn man mündige Bürger haben will, muss man ihnen drei Dinge beibringen: Lesen, Schreiben und – statistisches Denken.

Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

America is my country, and Paris is my home town.

Forse noi non li educhiamo bene i nostri bambini? – Mica tanto. Primo, non li ha abituate all'idea che dovranno viaggiare tra le stelle; secondo, non insegnate loro che sono cittadini dell'universo; terzo, non insegnate loro che la parola nemico, fuori dalla terra, non esiste.

That there is no autonomous space in the political order of the nation-state for something like the pure human in itself is evident at the very least from the fact that, even in the best of cases, the status of refugee has always been considered a temporary condition that ought to lead either to naturalization or to repatriation. A stable statute for the human in itself is inconceivable in the law of the nation-state.

If we continue to stand up for our rights, none of us alive today will ever have to pick up a weapon against our government. The bad news is that if those rights are watered down or taken away, the risk of tyranny will increase with each passing generation.

Sometimes when I'm in the midst of all this, I can hear my mother saying, 'Democracy is just something you must do every day, like brushing your teeth.

Voting isn't the most we can do, but the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one.

We must not only vote but fight to vote. The voting booth really is the one place on earth where the least powerful equal the powerful. p176

All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking back.

The voting booth is the one place on Earth where the least powerful and the most powerful are equal.

Democracy is just something you must do every day, like brushing you teeth.

All my years of campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To

Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still

politics are a part of daily life.

Credo nella pedagogia insieme alla democrazia, perché non c'è l'una senza l'altra.

Tunisia's Educational Reform Law, passed in 1991, decreed education to be compulsory for both sexes up until the age of 16.5 Mohamed Charfi, who served as Minister of Education from 1989 to 1994, sought to establish a clear distinction between the study of religion on the one hand and the study of the rights and duties of citizenship—civics—on the other.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

But freedom is not enough.

It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen.