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Rights and responsibilities of active citizenship

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A citizen is an individual who also belongs to a larger community. Citizens receive benefits from being part of their community. They also have responsibilities to their community.

The quotations below show ideas about what it means to be a citizen. Match each quotation to its meaning.

The value of a country comes from its citizens.

Citizens in a community rely on each other, even if they don't always agree.

Citizens have the power to shape government as well as an obligation to follow the laws.

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"The American ideal is not that we all agree with each other . . . . It is rather that . . . , at the end of the day, we will understand that we are one people, one country, and one community, and that our well-being is inextricably bound up with the well-being of each and every one of our fellow citizens." - C. Everett Koop, U.S. surgeon general

"As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end." - Adlai Stevenson, U.S. presidential candidate

"The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it." - John Stuart Mills, political philosopher

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