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Citizenship Quotes

"People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights"
Indira Gandhi
"Citizenship consists in the service of the country"
Jawaharlal Nehru
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors"
Chinua Achebe
"The essence of human rights is the right to have rights."
Hannah Arendt
"Equal laws protecting equal rights the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country"
James Madison
"There is nothing wrong with America that the faith love of freedom intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure"
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"In our age there is no such thing as keeping out of politics"
George Orwell
"We have a Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities"
Bill Maher
"I am America, and so can you."
Stephen Colbert
"Suffrage is the pivotal right"
Susan B. Anthony
"The goal of education should be to enable people to become active and engaged citizens, questioning and organizing against injustices."
Noam Chomsky
"An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people"
Thomas Jefferson
"The lesson of our history is that I, too, am America."
Ta Nehisi Coates
"To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland."
Democritus
"A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person"
James Madison
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