Citizen Quotes

Being a musician doesn't take away your right as a citizen to speak your mind.

Emily Robison

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You want to be a citizen of the world, and then life happens, and you forget to be a citizen of the world; you're a citizen of your own existence.

Jodie Whittaker

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The armed citizen made America free, and the armed citizen will keep America free!

David A. Clarke, Jr.

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President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.

Andrew Young

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I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.

Bharati Mukherjee

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Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

Robert Kennedy

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I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.

Werner Herzog

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The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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Flying from L.A. to India is an arduous undertaking. I regard myself more as a trans-Atlantic citizen than an Indian.

Satya Bhabha

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More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.

John Shadegg

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Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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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.

Stanley Hauerwas

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In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

Patti Smith

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I remember when we were making 'They Call It Pro Football,' which was our 'Citizen Kane.' The first line is 'It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun.'

Steve Sabol

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I'm always aware of various audiences, as a part of my training as a journalist and as part of my training as a citizen of Negroland.

Margo Jefferson

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And 'Queer Eye' is fascinating. It has a pinch-me-I'm-dreaming quality. It's very bourgeois, of course, and much more about the liberation of the consumer than the liberation of the democratic citizen.

Tony Kushner

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I love Britain. I'm an Irish citizen, but I was born in Canada, and I'm a British comedian, really. My entire career has been over here.

Katherine Ryan

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I'm not an American citizen, but I live in this country and eventually want to become an American citizen because I love this country so much.

Rob Halford

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Francis Bacon

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I still have a Japanese passport. I haven't become an American citizen, and I am worried about getting deported every day.

Masi Oka

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If I had to describe myself, I wouldn't use words like 'hero.' I wouldn't use 'patriot,' and I wouldn't use 'traitor.' I'd say I'm an American and I'm a citizen, just like everyone else.

Edward Snowden

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As a U.S. citizen, I cherish the First Amendment.

Mona Eltahawy

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I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.

Warren Beatty

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As of today, if I am asked abroad if I am a free citizen of the United States of America, I must only say what is true: No.

Lorraine Hansberry

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