Quotes About Citizenship

I'm not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I'm not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

The people who come across the border are hard-working family people. They have great values, and that's all well and good but they are also very, very consistent Democrat voters.

Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

In Mexico, they don't have birth certificates... They don't have registration cards for voters. They have one national ID. We don't have a national ID.

There are states with photo ID requirements that don't disenfranchise eligible voters.

As the state's chief elections officer, it is my job to make sure that only eligible voters vote, but also that every eligible voter has the opportunity to vote.

Who the voter chooses to vote for is up to him or her, I would only request all eligible voters to go out and vote.

We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.

We must make clear that if you come here illegally, you will be sent back home.

We believe that when there is a democratic setup, we have a greater voice.

If we don't allow people to vote in America, what is our democracy? It's a sham.

I didn't choose to come to the United States, but being raised here has shaped exactly who I am today, and I can't imagine that being taken away from me.

While we march in the streets making our voices heard, we must also march to the ballot box. That's where the real change happens.

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

appreciate the value of our free institutions." In these pursuits Lincoln was committed to what Theodore Parker defined as the "American Idea," which was a "composite idea…of three simple ones: 1. Each man is endowed with certain unalienable rights. 2. In respect of these rights all men are equal. 3. A government is to protect each man in the entire and actual enjoyment of all the unalienable rights….

It is," TR said, "a base outrage to oppose a man because of his religion or birthplace, and all good citizens will hold any such effort in abhorrence.

all those who conduct themselves worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protection of civil government.

It was, instead, about urging African Americans to draw on the traditions of the American Revolution to battle state-sanctioned white supremacy in order to claim their rightful place as citizens.

One need not become a candidate (though that's certainly an option worth considering) or a political addict hooked on every twist and every turn and every tweet. But the paying of attention, the expressing of opinion, and the casting of ballots are foundational to living up to the obligations of citizenship in a republic.

Lincoln would come to see democracy as a work in progress, a process in which reason took its chances against prejudice and passion.

Lincoln died as he brought about a nation that would ratify the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to abolish slavery and make citizenship for Black Americans a federal constitutional right. In his lifetime, however, he would never fully put into practice the principles summed up in the motto of a newspaper founded in Rochester, New York, in 1847: Right is of no sex—Truth is of no color—God is the father of us all, and all we are brethren.

Tuesday, October 6, 1925, Coolidge was broad-gauged. "Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years of the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of to-day is real and genuine," Coolidge said. "No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.

Coolidge told the veterans: "I recognize the full and complete necessity of 100 percent Americanism, but 100 percent Americanism may be made up of many various elements.