Quotes About Citizenship

I rejoice with you in the success, which has thus far attended the cause. Yet in all our rejoicings, let us neither express nor cherish any hard feelings toward any citizen who by his vote has differed with us. Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling.

We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizens of the several States. We should bear this in mind, and act in such a way as to say nothing insulting or irritating. I would inculcate this idea, so that we may not, like the Pharisees set ourselves up to be better than other people.

let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of his own and his children's liberty.

For young fellows like them, the war was a chance to become men, to see the world and save it and return home as American citizens. It didn't occur to either of them that lives would be lost, that the world they were to defend would shift under their feet and never be the same again. They only dreamed of the adventure.

There was a fleeting cold front, the slight judgment that said immigrants were a necessary fact of life, one that must be tolerated but never truly accepted. The only way to ever become a permanent part of America's greatness would be to defend it. Cassidy

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

Being political doesn't only or principally mean caring what party wins the next election; to be political is to care about the happiness of strangers.

Washington's intentions, the surrender of basic citizenship rights in the hope that hostile whites would reciprocate with schooling and better jobs, deserved the condemnation it received from black leaders

E.A. Partridge of the Grain Growers' Guide wondered pointedly why the vote was available to "the lowest imbruted foreign hobo" but not to Canadian women.

The reformers define the purpose of education as preparation for global competitiveness, higher education, or the workforce. They view students as "human capital" or "assets." One seldom sees any reference in their literature or public declarations to the importance of developing full persons to assume the responsibilities of citizenship.

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

Social cohesion and volunteering encourage good citizenship

Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of national and community life. The people must believe that they can take part.

Education and justice are democracy's only life insurance.

Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.

I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen.

I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.

I just want to make sure that public service doesn't have to be an occupation, but it needs to be a way of life.

Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.

I believe that each of us-no matter what our age or background or walk of life-each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.

We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.

We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.