Citizenship
What
does it mean?
To be a citizen is to be proud.
It is to belong. As a citizen,
you have rights. A citizen falls and
rises with their country. A citizen
feels the pain of its fellow citizens. A
citizen has the opportunity to act, and to be strong in doing so. A citizen can
stand alone, or in a group. A citizen
can stand up to the truth, or hide from it.
A citizen can believe in whatever he or she wants to. A citizen has choices. A citizen has chances. A citizen has the power to say, “I think our
country is wonderful” or “Our country isn’t handling the problems well”. To be a citizen of the
To be a good citizen is to have pride and to be truthful. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “A
lie cannot live.” If you are untruthful
of something, it will indeed come back to you sometime in life. Lying for unimportant reasons is one of the
worst things to do. If someone tells a
lie that only benefits his or herself, such as getting out of trouble by
blaming someone else, that lie can be destructive to one’s mind. The guilty feeling of blaming some innocent
person, even if the lie was for nothing of value, sticks with the person who
committed the sin. Overall, the act of
lying is best to be left alone. As Rosa
Parks once told, “Each person must live their life as a model for others.” Rosa Parks was right; you are a role model
for everyone else. If just one person
didn’t ever tell lies, truthfulness would take over. Sadly, no one is completely truthful.
If you are proud of your citizenship, you should be able to do the
right thing. If you have pride in
yourself and in your country, your life will go along way. A proud citizen will stand up for his or her
country and help make it a better place to live. A proud person should be willing to die for
something, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “A man who won’t die for
something is not fit to live.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is a good example of a proud and
honest citizen. He was proud of his
beliefs and he wouldn’t give in. Dr.
King never lied about his beliefs. He
always told his friends what was happening.
Dr. King didn’t hide from the truth, but faced it. For these facts, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
succeeded.