Citizenship is more than an individual exchange of freedoms for rights; it is also membership in a body politic, a nation, and a community. To be deemed fair, a system must offer its citizens equal opportunities for public recognition, and groups cannot systematically suffer from misrecognition in the form of stereotype and stigma.

Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing to pull his weight.

The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.

Socrates ... said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are -- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" -- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty and war itself.