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Citizenship Quotes

Words on what citizenship means.

These citizenship quotes start with suffrage as a common right that logically extends to everyone, a foundation for how citizenship gets defined and defended.

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

Quotes by Victoria Woodhull

I have dual citizenship.

Quotes by Simone Biles

Even if there's no way to stop U.S. corporations from shedding their U.S. identities and becoming foreign corporations, there's no reason they should retain the privileges of U.S. citizenship.

Quotes by Robert Reich

Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.

Quotes by Richard Neal

About Quotes

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

Quotes by Ralph Nader

Bernie Sanders supports offering a pathway to citizenship for immigrants already in the U.S. and halting deportations for almost 9 million hardworking undocumented fathers and mothers.

Quotes by Nicholas Gonzalez

On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.

Quotes by Nathan Deal

We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.

Quotes by Michael D. Higgins

I'm not American. I still have my Japanese citizenship.

Quotes by Masi Oka

Against Quotes

French citizenship should be either inherited or merited.

Quotes by Marine Le Pen

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.

Quotes by Linda Chavez

Arizona is in the midst of a fiscal crisis. We've cut school funding. And they pass a bill questioning Obama's citizenship? For real?

Quotes by Kyrsten Sinema

Humanity does not come with citizenship or a green card.

Quotes by Joe Kennedy III

To provide a welcoming path to citizenship for immigrants and to restore our civil liberties, our foreign policy platform is very important.

Quotes by Jill Stein

Almost Quotes

Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.

Quotes by Jacques Delors

In the midst of applying for American citizenship, of finally attempting to get my presidents in a row, I felt it incumbent upon myself to explore the national psyche in every way.

Quotes by Hamish Bowles

Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?

Quotes by Gwen Ifill

I have never concealed my dual citizenship. People involved in state business should probably declare their dual citizenship if they have it.

Quotes by Gennady Timchenko

If there's amnesty leading to citizenship, I'm going to vote against it again.

Quotes by Frank Wolf

America Quotes

Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third of Jewry in the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel.

Quotes by David Novak

Frequently Asked Questions

What is citizenship described as in this topic?
One quote calls suffrage a common right of citizenship, arguing that if women have the right to vote, that right logically cannot be denied, treating voting and citizenship as inseparable.
Do all wealthy countries offer birthright citizenship?
According to one quote, no. It states that most developed nations, nearly every country in Europe plus Israel and Japan among them, don't grant citizenship automatically based on being born there, challenging the assumption that it's a universal practice among developed nations.
What broader concept of citizenship is proposed here?
One quote calls for a fresh kind of civic trust, one that defines belonging in a republic through mutual obligation rather than paperwork, framing citizenship as something tied to that trust rather than just legal status.
How is suffrage connected to citizenship in this topic?
One quote treats suffrage as a common right that follows logically from citizenship itself, arguing that women's right to vote can't be logically escaped once citizenship is granted.
Is citizenship discussed only in a legal sense here?
No, it ranges from the legal, such as birthright citizenship policy across countries, to the more philosophical, like defining a meaningful form of citizenship built on trust appropriate to a republic. Related lines are under About.

They also compare how America around the world handle birthright citizenship differently, and call for a trust worthy of a true republic.