Quotes About Citizenship

I might have lived in England for the last several years, but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.

Privacy is a right, but as in any democratic society, it is not an absolute right.

Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.

What a privilege it is to be an American!

As immigrants, we understand better than most that to be an American is a privilege that conveys not just rights but responsibilities.

Citizenship is a privilege. We don't grant it to people because they think they deserve it. What have you done for the United States?

When you restore democracy, you cannot say that only those who worked for the restoration of democracy will be allowed to use the privileges of a democracy.

In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.

Even if there's no way to stop U.S. corporations from shedding their U.S. identities and becoming foreign corporations, there's no reason they should retain the privileges of U.S. citizenship.

We need to really be careful to not just be responsive to whatever happens with Trump, but to be proactive on things people elected us to do.

People all over the world know me as an Indian artist. I could have chosen any other country and wouldn't have had to go through problems claiming my citizenship. But it is India where my heart is and has always been.

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.

I am many different things, and that is why I am so proud to be American.

Dignity, respect, and citizenship for essential workers is personal for me and in the best interest of our country.

I don't diminish the idea of being American, but what I embrace is the idea of being human.

Clearly, dirty election rolls can mean dirty elections.

I'm not saying to you that every element of segregation and discrimination and second-class citizenship has changed. But in the political sense, the world has changed. People now who want to vote can vote.

We're all looking for an authentic way to be engaged in the community, engaged in politics, engaged in national discussion - and so, we're clunky. We're all clunky. But it's better than not doing it.

A lot of people have had good discussions about what it means to be American, and we need to broaden our definition.

The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We do it at the ballot box.

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

Self-government is an experiment. It could still fail.

'Mudbound,' you know, is about home. 'Mudbound' is about what it means to be a citizen, and 'Mudbound,' in fact, is set in this post-reconstruction era that we haven't really explored. You know, not since 'Sounder' have we even really explored that experience.

If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.