#citizenship

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Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.


Phyllis Schlafly


#been #birth #citizenship #claim #never

It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.


Phyllis Schlafly


#citizens #citizenship #consent #defines #express

We need – more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes – to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make serious imaginative assessment of that special relationship between the self and the city; its unique plasticity, its privacy and freedom.


Jonathan Raban


#citizenship #inspirational #sustainability #architecture

Take up citizenship and the conversion it entailed, send a couple of your sons to the levy when they were of age, pay taxes calculated not to drive you and your family into penury or the mountains and the life of a bandit. Oh, and while you’re at it, steer clear of debt and disease. Chances were — mostly — if you did all that, you’d never starve, never have your home burned down and your children raped before your eyes, never have to wear a slave collar.


Richard K. Morgan


#conversion #age

It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.


E.A. Bucchianeri


#citizenship #courage #democracy #free-speech #freedom

Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.


Joe Baca


#character #citizenship #fixed #good #good character

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.


H. Rap Brown


#citizenship #class #like #little #little bit

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.


J. Edgar Hoover


#citizenship #common #criminals #enforcement #every

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.


Hedy Lamarr


#called #came #citizenship #everything #exams

Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.


Eric Liu


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