Citizens Quotes
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The moment you stigmatize a whole group of people - for example, Muslims - then, obviously, you make the decent, law-abiding Muslims feel as if they're under threat in some way or that their legitimacy, as members or citizens of society, is brought into question.
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The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.
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Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.
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It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.
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As a practical matter, every immigrant needs to master English to be a full participating citizen and to have full economic opportunity.
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I really enjoy the lattitude I have with being a private citizen. I can get a lot done. I am good with that.
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Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time. Slavery defined what it meant to be black (a slave), and Jim Crow defined what it meant to be black (a second-class citizen). Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be black.
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Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?
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There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens
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What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?
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When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
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Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.
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Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.
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The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.
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It is, after all, absurd that in 2017 women are still at best second-class citizens.
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The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.
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All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens.
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One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.
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At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.
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The citizens of America and the citizens of Texas expect to be able to live in safety in their communities. That's what the rule of law is truly all about.
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The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.
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If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency than its largest licit source, oil sales. Mexico is a corrupt state that has now become dependent on the earnings on an illegal product. But inevitably, the product will become legal and then Mexico will retain its corruption but must face the needs of its citizens now employed by the drug industry who have become steeped in violence and conditioned to higher incomes.
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We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the galaxy and at home with our own heart.
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Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.
