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    Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.

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    Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

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    Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.

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    And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say, well that's the rent that I pay for living on this planet, okay?

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    Castilian Spanish-speaking Spain is big, but is bigger in addition with Catalonian-speaking Spain, Galician-speaking Spain and Basque-speaking Spain. Democratic Spain, Constitutional Spain, can not be separated from diversity and the respect to the citizenship.

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    Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.

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    Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

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    Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied grants of power.

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    Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.

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    Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

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    Citizenship is the right to have rights.

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    Citizenship means standing up for everyone's right to vote.***

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    Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.

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    [Donald] Trump is right when he says Ted Cruz citizenship has never been litigated!

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    Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

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    Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

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    Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.

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    from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship

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    Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

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    Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

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    Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

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    Good government is no substitute for self-government.

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    Having my Canadian citizenship is a blessing at this time, and there's a part of me that feels very much one foot in and one foot out, and I know I can go back to Canada whenever. There are a lot of things that Canada does really well are the same things that are very messed up in the U.S., but I know that's a pretty self-centered stance. I don't know. It can be pretty discouraging, particularly in a city like New York. It's hard to see so many of the issues happening in the country in an up close way, but at the same time, there's a sense of positive solidarity here.

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    For everybody has a natural right not only to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of everybody else, whose person or property is invaded. The natural right of each individual to defend his own person and property against an aggressor, and to go to the assistance and defence of every one else whose person or property is invaded, is a right without which men could not exist on earth.

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    I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.

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    I’d rather see the United States as a beacon of Good Work and Good Citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

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    I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.

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    I always say there's no ticket of admission for active citizenship. Anybody can get through that gate, and anybody can ask that basic question that gets the ball rolling.

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    Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.

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    I oppose amnesty, I oppose citizenship, I oppose legalization for illegal aliens. I always have and I always will.

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    I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.

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    I think that anybody who works and pays taxes ought to have a right for citizenship.

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    I see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives are equally desperate. But on arrival, the Haitians are incarcerated, and some are immediately repatriated, whereas Cubans get to stay and are eligible for citizenship.

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    Just to pile up money for my own sake, I just can't view that as good citizenship.

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    I now have Croatian citizenship, but I only accepted it because Croatia allowed me to keep my Russian passport.

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    It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

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    I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.

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    Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon.

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    My heavenly citizenship makes the whole world a foreign mission field.

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    My response to my friend Naheed Nenshi was simply to say that some of the hyperbolic language that's being used to critique this sensible reinforcement of the public nature of the citizenship oath is, I think, unhelpful, and is actually inflaming the situation.

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    Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence.

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    Naheed Nenshi is a friend of mine. We - he - knows how close I am to all of the cultural, ethnic, and religious communities in Canada, particularly his own Ismaili community. By the way, the vast majority of Canadian Muslims, particularly Ismaili Muslims that I know, strongly support our government's reinforcement of the public nature of the public citizenship oath.

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    My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.

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    Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.

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    One of the significant reasons why women who are trafficked and forced to work as prostitutes often don't want to come forward is because they're worried they'll be deported. If the police are certain that a woman has been trafficked and forced into prostitution, then perhaps we should automatically allow her citizenship.

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    Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

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    Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly civilized.

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    Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.

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    The Constitution says nothing about anchor babies. The 14th Amendment says nothing about birthright citizenship.

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    Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.