#citizen

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open. ↗

— Gunter Grass

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If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american citizens #angry #blame #citizens #comparing

If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit. ↗

— Bill Kristol

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A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#certain degree #citizenry #civic #constitutional #degree

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#am #assembly #citizen #citizens #citizenship

Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#american idea #citizen #each #going #her

The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#civic #development #economic #economic life #fact

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!" ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#bin #citizens #free #free man #free men

The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression. ↗

— Ramman Kenoun

#citizens #freeing #illusion #nation #occupation

What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#citizens #class citizens #democratic #democratic society #equal