#citizenship

Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship. ↗

— Jacques Delors

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

— Tony Campolo

#cross #died #jesus #second-class #women

When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.' ↗

— Mitch Daniels

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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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Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay. ↗

— Gary Miller

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There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#daily #democracy #without

Citizenship consists in the service of the country. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#consists #country #service

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams. ↗

— Yann Martel

#citizenship #politics #art

[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