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Tag Tag Citizenship
Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address of President John F. Kennedy · 1961

Quotes

“As long as I have any choice, I will only stay in a country where political liberty, tolerance, and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.”

Albert Einstein · Ideas and Opinions , 1954 · Primary source

“And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.”

John F. Kennedy · Civil Rights Address, 1963 · Primary source

Works

Theodore Roosevelt · 1910
Citizenship in a Republic

An address on citizenship in democratic societies, examining civic duty, individual responsibility, public service, equality, liberty and political conduct.

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Eleanor Roosevelt · 1963
Tomorrow is Now

Roosevelt examines American democracy, civil rights and international responsibility, arguing for active citizenship and social progress in a changing world.

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Political liberty 2 Tolerance 4 Equality before the law 1 Exile 2 Civic duty 4 Public service 7 Collective responsibility 2 National service 1 Civil rights 6 Freedom 15 Equality 5 Racial justice 2 Democracy 2 Individual responsibility 2 Man in the Arena 1 Sorbonne University 2 Social policy 1 International cooperation 8