“Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.” IfsValuesCommunityLosesPrinciplesIdentityConfidenceCitizensInternationalDeniedInternational CommunityPersonal Identity Author:Boris Trajkovski
“By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.” WorldSelfImaginationIdentityCitizensPrejudiceLocalsDivisionInvitedFrontiersHorseback Author:Alain de Botton
“Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken' identity, social racism, the whole fabric of urban and suburban life-are almost too much to bear, but you bear them, because it's the truth. Citizen is Rankine's Spoon River Anthology, an epic as large and frightening and beautiful as the country and various emotional states that produced it.” CountryStatesWholeRealityAmericaBeautifulSongSocialToo MuchIdentityEmotionalBearsCitizensRacismRiversNotesVariousFrighteningFabricUrbanEpicMistakenDoomSpoonsAnthologyClaudiaMistaken Identity Author:Hilton Als
“We really have to, as a country, recognize that school is where people get their identity not just as a scholar, or a future business person, but as a citizen. And we need to make sure that schools set them up for success as citizens.” PeopleNeedsPersonsCountrySchoolIdentityCitizensScholarBusiness PersonFuture Business Author:Benjamin Jealous
“The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We can speak any language we want at the dinner table, but English is the language of public discourse, or the marketplace and of the voting booth.” WantPoliticalSpeakLanguageShareIdentityCitizensTablesDinnerCoreVotingTicketsParticipationDiscourseMarketplacePolitical LifeDinner TablePublic Discourse Author:S. I. Hayakawa
“Forced federal registration of U.S. citizens based on religious identity is fascism, period. Nothing else to call it.” ReligiousIdentityCitizensPeriodsFascismRegistrationReligious Identity Author:Rachel Maddow
“I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada. But all my extended family is American, I've held an American passport and I've spent my whole adult life in between New York and LA. So I feel like an American... and I also feel like a Canadian! I wish more people were dual citizens and then I wouldn't feel like such a freak.” PeopleFeelsWholeWishBornNew YorkIdentityCitizensAdultsIndiaCrisisRaisedCanadaFreakPassportsWhole FamilyIdentity CrisisExtended Family Author:Emily Haines
“The al-Qaida cell broken up near Buffalo, N.Y., contains some citizens who also found themselves in Afghanistan, training for the Great All-Around Satan Smiting. Treason? Oh, of course not. They were on a religious pilgrimage and got lost. Happens all the time. I knew a kid who went to Lutheran Bible Camp and turned up six years later in a Christian Identity compound with a shaved head and a Hitler mustache.” YearsHappensKidsChristianCoursesFoundLostReligiousIdentityBrokenCitizensSixTrainingCellsSatanAlsCampsAfghanistanCompoundsTreasonPilgrimageMustacheBuffaloBroken UpLutheransShaved Head Author:James Lileks
“And it's a lie that has consequences, because the great American dream is to have a good job, and in recent years, America has failed to deliver that dream more than it has at any time in recent memory. A good job is an individual's primary identity, their very self-worth, their dignity - it establishes the relationship they have with their friends, community and country. When we fail to deliver a good job that fits a citizen's talents, training and experience, we are failing the great American dream.” YearsSelfCountryDreamJobsAmericaLyingIndividualCommunityMemoriesFailingTalentIdentityCitizensFitTrainingConsequenceDignitySelf WorthPrimariesAmerican DreamGood JobNotableGreat AmericanTraining And Experience Author:Jim Clifton
“Citizens often think of a state's interests in terms of the promotion of ideals such as democracy, a particular way of life, or other values which they endorse or see as part of their historical continuity and identity. In this domain as in others values are not fixed, and so a state's interests are dynamic and in a constant state of negotiation and construction.” ThinkingWayStatesValuesTermInterestDemocracyIdentityParticularCitizensIdealsConstantHistoricalFixedConstructionNegotiationDomainPromotionContinuity Author:Dale Jamieson
“I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada.” WholeBornIdentityCitizensIndiaCrisisRaisedCanadaWhole FamilyIdentity Crisis Author:Emily Haines
“I understood my personal responsibility in putting Christ on the cross and the implications of how the Gospel impacts every area of life. It informs my identity as a human, as an artist, and as a citizen of this country.” HumansCountryArtistChristResponsibilityIdentityCitizensUnderstoodAreasCrossesImpactImplicationsPersonal ResponsibilityChrist On The Cross Author:Sho Baraka
“As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.” FeelsSometimesIdentityCitizensGlobal Citizen Author:Wole Soyinka
“Each human being is a citizen of the world. We have many identities, of which one of the identities is our human identity. And that's something that the schools can provide, but that requires again a vision rather than being centers of hatred. It could be an enormous opportunity to give that mission.” WorldGivingHumansSchoolOpportunityHuman BeingsVisionIdentityCitizensHatredMissionsEnormous Author:Amartya Sen