Citizenship Quotes

• The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Happiness
  • Destiny
  • Judgment

• When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think we would agree on that that's a more toxic and contentious issue, granting full amnesty.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Immigration
  • Agree
  • Disagree

• Where do real conversations about citizenship occur? In our schools. Think about the things you learned in first grade. "My Country 'Tis of Thee," "I pledge allegiance to the flag," "America the Beautiful."

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Real

• If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.

  

  George Will
  • Immigration
  • Wave
  • Citizenship

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

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Argument
  • Citizenship

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