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As long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject, being amenable to the laws of my country for the same.

~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

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I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.

~Emily Mortimer

Topics: American American Citizen Avoid Become Citizen Cynical Determined Did Inheritance Paying Reasons Tax

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To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.

~Ernest Istook

Topics: American American Citizen Any Assimilate Become Cherished Citizen Does English Help Involve Melting Melting Pot Mock More Our People Pot Read Require Right Speak Them Truly Vote Write

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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

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I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else.

~Fred Korematsu

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As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without a trial or a hearing.

~Fred Korematsu

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I still remember, 40 years ago, when I was shackled and put in prison... Being an American citizen didn't mean a thing.

~Fred Korematsu

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During the curfew, whoever went out, the people were watching you. Any Japanese home, there was some person figuring he's a good American citizen by doing his duty, and they were watching every move each family were doin'. Or if they went out, they followed them to see where they were goin'.

~Fred Korematsu

Topics: American American Citizen Any Citizen Doin Doing Duty Each Every Family Figuring Followed Goin Good He His Home Japanese Move Out People Person See Some Them Watching Were Where Whoever You

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Honestly, I want to live a calm life without being in the press. I want to be like any other American citizen who gets a speeding ticket or has an argument with his spouse... and doesn't have the whole world know.

~George Zimmerman

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