Chuck D Quotes

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

I have family who are British citizens and who want to be citizens of the world and citizens of the E.U.

When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.

I'm 'of the world'.

I am as much a citizen of the world as I am of my country.

I'm really glad to have become a Russian citizen. Russia's such a welcoming country, and many people in the world want to become her citizens.

Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.

The City of Angels is a microcosm of the world, and so living in L.A. makes me feel like a citizen of the world.

Isn't protecting our legal citizens from an invading army of illegal aliens who are using our services and taking our jobs, isn't that a basic notion of fairness? Isn't that in the Constitution? Where is the fairness to American citizens here?

I've lived many places all over the world, so I've always seen myself as a citizen of the world.

I pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them.

One of the significant reasons why women who are trafficked and forced to work as prostitutes often don't want to come forward is because they're worried they'll be deported. If the police are certain that a woman has been trafficked and forced into prostitution, then perhaps we should automatically allow her citizenship.

They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

These are three American citizens and we really demand answers for American citizens.

One of the many things I do not understand about Americans is this: what is it like to be a citizen of a superpower, to maintain democratically the means of planetary extinction. I wonder how this contributes to the dreamlife of America, a dreamlife that is so deep and troubled.

The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.

Damnit! Nationalism should stop at the stratosphere!

I'm no Armenian. I'm an American. Well, the truth is I am both and neither. I love Armenia and I love America and I belong to both, but I am only this: an inhabitant of the earth, and so are you, whoever you are. I tried to forget Armenia but I couldn't do it.

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

Erasing national borders does not make people safer or more prosperous. It undermines democracy and trades away prosperity.

The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth.

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

Post 9/11, we've seen such disastrous policies on the border. I live two and a half hours away from the border, and I've seen changes for the communities there. I feel like it's an occupied zone. We're losing our rights, and both sides of the border are terrified. The Mexican population and the U.S. population are united in fear.