Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Signer Bombacci, Communist deputy of Trieste, wanted to know why the paper in question was suppressed and also if Italian Communists were to be deprived of their citizenship rights...
Guinta: "I am speaking for myself. We cannot allow Communist papers to carry on criminal propaganda. . . . You, Deputy Bombacci, asked whether you still enjoyed the rights of Italian citizenship. We reply that you do not, because all your actions prove you to be unworthy of that honor...
...nothing which the individual can do for himself either by his own efforts or by acting in concert with his fellows. American wage earners look upon themselves as citizens of the republic, standing on an absolute equality with all other citizens in respect to every attribute of citizenship. They have no desire to be regarded as a class set apart to be shielded by the protection of special political agencies and they refuse to permit discrimination against themselves on account of their status in the economic or social structure...
American wage earners are in no sense wards of the state nor will they permit themselves to be so regarded. Neither do they have, on the other hand, any desire that any other portion of the citizenship of the country be regarded as wards of the state...
...seriousness has been so great that certain members of the Student Council have issued a statement, which included, among other things, the following sentence: "The tendency during the last few years to disregard the restrictions of ordinary courtesy, the common ownership of public property, and the privileges of citizenship has of late grown to such proportions as to be not only a reproach to the University and a danger to the community, but an influence that is possessed of almost unlimited possibilities for harm...