Some articles on citizens:
... The Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly (hCa) is an organization of citizens dedicated to peace, democracy and human rights in Europe ... peace movement called the “Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly” ... Overcoming the division of Europe is the job, especially, of civil society, of citizens acting together in self-organized associations, movements ...
... Theatre (preview, Edinburgh International Festival), Glasgow Citizens Theatre Cassio in Othello - Royal Shakespeare Company Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream - RSC Pompey in ...
... service in the French overseas territories for citizens from France, citizens of other EU member states or citizens of countries belonging to the European Economic Area ...
... Scholars such as Mogens Herman Hansen suggest the pnyx was able to hold about 6,000 citizens, though later expansions may have accommodated 8,000 or as many as 13,000 ... Flacelière states that the Pnyx had enough standing room for as many as 20,000 citizens ... This can be taken as a reasonable estimate of the number of politically active citizens (citizens were free males born in the city, or perhaps 20% of the adult population) ...
... The government has established statutes regulating who can become naturalized citizens because of the benefits it brings ... being able to compel military service of its citizens if necessary ... and are of vital importance, for if all or a large number of citizens oppose such defense the 'good order and happiness' of the United States cannot long endure.” The pacifism that Schwimmer professes ...
Famous quotes containing the word citizens:
“It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history of the country, in any crisis and under any conditions, have our Jewish fellow citizens failed to live up to the highest standards of citizenship and patriotism.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)