#citizenship

The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

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Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

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Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

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I have dual citizenship; I would be happy to go to England. I would be very happy to go to America. ↗

— John McAfee

#be happy #citizenship #dual #england #go

Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace. ↗

— Paul Robeson

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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time. ↗

— Jackie Robinson

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The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

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As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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[F]reedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that "Oh, I don't get involved in politics," as if that makes you somehow cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable. ↗

— Bill Maher

#freedom #government #participation #politics #responsibility

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands. ↗

— John L. Lewis

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