Quotes About Citizenship

A major argument against voting is that it makes no difference, and if that's the case, let me explain that the person's vote does make a difference.

Apolitical people are often unaware of the procedural aspects of voting.

Democracy is never far from Transparency just like the term Democracy is not far away from explaining what the term Unity means.

Many people take for granted that they always have and always will have the right to vote, but shedding doubt on that may be enough to make people realize that they shouldn't squander their votes.

The most important tasks of a democracy are done by everyone.

Voting is a fundamental right and an important duty in our society.

the love of ones country is a slended thing but why should love stop at the border.

When did your family come to the US?" Joaquin bit back a grin. "We didn't. The United States came to us." Mia's brow furrowed in confusion. "What do you mean?" "My family has been living in Colorado since before this was a state or even a US territory. After the Mexican-American war, the border shifted south, making the San Luis Valley part of the United States. As my grandma likes to say, 'We didn't move. The border moved over us.

Citizenship is a way of being in the world rooted in the knowledge that I am a member of a vast community of human and nonhuman beings that I depend on for essentials I could never provide for myself.

As a white, male American who has always been well-off—the kind of person for whom this nation has always worked best—the gift of full citizenship, unquestioned and unchallenged, came to me as an accident of birth. Today I realize the magnitude of that gift. But for years I was an unconscious and ungrateful recipient because attaining citizenship required no effort from me.

Democratic action depends upon…free spaces, where people experience a schooling in citizenship and learn a vision of the common good in the course of struggling for change. —Sara Evans and Harry Boyte, Free Spaces

It is in the common good to hold our political differences and the conflicts they create in a way that does not unravel the civic community on which democracy depends. My

Historians will look back in stupor at 20th and 21st century Americans who believed the magnificent republic they inherited would be enriched by bringing in scores of millions from the failed states of the Third World.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Distinctions between Virginians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders, are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!

I am not a Virginian, but an American.

No. She told me she was going to marry him, to get French nationality . . . She was obsessed with getting a nationality...

The American people will need to begin living the virtues, values, and principles of self-government in their own personal lives and daily actions before they can expect to live them as a nation.

But in truth, those of us fortunate enough to have lived all our lives in a mature democracy only think of elections because we take so much else for granted. Democracy is not just elections; it is a whole set of rules that limit what government can do.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.

This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.