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Citizenship Citizenship in our time is about how you spend your attention. Tim Wu [2018] © 2021 Kwiple.com
Citizenship Citizenship is an office, and that office has duties. The duties include being informed about what is going on around you, and what is stopping Americans from knowing what is going on around them is the cascade, the torrent, the Nile River of dark money that has begun to flow into our democracy since Citizens United. Sheldon Whitehouse, January 19, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Citizenship  … citizenship is one of what W. B. Gallie has termed “essentially contested concepts.” Many of the most studied concepts in the social sciences can be classified as “essentially contested” because there is no settled consensus on their specific meanings – their essence – and they do not lend themselves to easy definition. Elizabeth F. Cohen and Cyril Ghosh, Citizenship  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Citizenship Even though citizenship is commonly misunderstood as a categorical and binary concept (one either is or is not a citizen), in reality, one experiences citizenship as a gradient or slope. Thus, depending on context, one might be said to have more or less of it. Elizabeth F. Cohen and Cyril Ghosh, Citizenship  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Citizenship [For] the ancient Greeks political participation formed an intrinsic part of citizenship. To enjoy the promise of civic equality that the status of citizenship holds out, all citizens had to play their part in the political process. Otherwise, instead of a situation of ruling and being ruled in turn, a citizen would simply be ruled. Indeed, our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek idiotes , a term used to describe someone who concentrates entirely on their private affairs to the neglect of the public realm. Richard Bellamy, Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction © 2019 Kwiple.com
Citizenship In a 2019 survey, only 40 percent of Americans were able to pass the test that all applicants for U.S. citizenship must take, which asks questions like “Who did the United States fight in World War II?” and  “We elect a President for how many years?” The only state in which a majority passed was Vermont. George Packer, Atlantic Monthly, March 10, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
 
Citizenship Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what’s on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. Why, if birth made you American, you wouldn't need any legislation; you wouldn't need any amendments to the Constitution; you wouldn't be faced with civil-rights filibustering Washington, D.C., right now. Malcolm X, speech in Cleveland, Ohio, April 3, 1964 © 2021 Kwiple.com