Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the ...well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the st...ate. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... in your ordered verdict of guilty you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my ...civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself individually but all of my sex are, by your honor's verdict, doomed to political subjection under this so-called republican form of government.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political a...ffiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic background, marital status, economic level, convenience, or previous experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To see self-sufficiency as the hallmark of maturity conveys a view of adult life that is at odds with the human condition, a view ...that cannot sustain the kinds of long-term commitments and involvements with other people that are necessary for raising and educating a child or for citizenship in a democratic society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... work is only part of a man's life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelli...gent exercise of citizenship, all play a part in a well-rounded life. Workers are men and women with potentialities for mental and spiritual development as well as for physical health. We are paying the price today of having too long sidestepped all that this means to the mental, moral, and spiritual health of our nation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Are we bereft of citizenship because we are mothers, wives and daughters of a mighty people? Have women no country--no interests s...taked in public weal--no liabilities in common peril--no partnership in a nation's guilt and shame?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nationalism is militant hatred. It is not love of our countrymen: that, which denotes good citizenship, philanthropy, practical re...ligion, should go by the name of patriotism. Nationalism is passionate xenophobia. It is fanatical, as all forms of idol-worship are bound to be. And fanaticism--l'infame denounced by Voltaire--obliterates or reverses the distinction between good and evil. Patriotism, the desire to work for the common weal, can be, must be, reasonable: "My country, may she be right!" Nationalism spurns reason: "Right or wrong, my country."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... imprisonment itself, entailing loss of liberty, loss of citizenship, separation from family and loved ones, is punishment enou...gh for most individuals, no matter how favorable the circumstances under which the time is passed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Columbus stood in his age as the pioneer of progress and enlightenment. The system of universal education is in our age the most p...rominent and salutary feature of the spirit of enlightenment, and it is peculiarly appropriate that the schools be made by the people the center of the day's demonstration. Let the national flag float over every schoolhouse in the country and the exercises be such as shall impress upon our youth the patriotic duties of American citizenship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »