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For far too long, Washington has denied the American citizens of Puerto Rico vital human services and adequate health care funding.
The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
It may not be what you would've chosen, but we all have a responsibility to be active citizens and shape our system and our future.
Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.
Let me be clear: we are still a nation of immigrants, and we honor all those immigrants who are working hard to become new citizens.
Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.
In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.
Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter.
As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
If we all act together - business, governments, NGOs and citizens and, especially, the young - just imagine the good we could create.
As ordinary citizens, we don't spend much time reading about and thinking through the creation of new laws or amendments of old ones.
I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.
Dear citizen, if you were my love, I'd stole your money!' Admin if you were my love, I would ask you for divorce and spousal support!
What we've done as a country is, we've said we owe it to our citizens to know who is traveling here and if they intend to do us harm.
When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights.
The greatest propaganda coup of the American right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.
The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified.
Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of his country.
Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.
We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country.
As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.
Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.
I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today.
A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.
For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.
Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation.
It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.
What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?
The National Guard fulfills the militia mentioned in the Second amendment. Citizens no longer need to protect the states or themselves.
We reaffirm that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens.
Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.
As we work to secure our data and communications from hackers, we must recognize that our citizens face a far broader array of threats.
The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents.
Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.
As a practical matter, every immigrant needs to master English to be a full participating citizen and to have full economic opportunity.
We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended.
The 14th Amendment is very questionable as to whether or not somebody can come over, have a baby and immediately that baby is a citizen.
If India breaks your heart with untold inequalities, it also surprises you with the unheralded achievements of its most humble citizens.
Only native male citizens with a wife and children, a property, and a military rank should be allowed to vote and be elected for office.
An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.
With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.