In this paper, I focus on the ambiguities and ultimately contradictions that are inherent in the Moroccan state discourses about citizenship, exploring their incompatibility with the nature of the political regime and placing the phenomenon in historical and constitutional perspective as well as connecting it with what I call the continuous quest for citizenship. The nature of relations between people and state in political and historical contexts marked by histories of authoritarianism and subjugations of individuals may not be as amenable to the principles of citizenship that require real ruptures with an archaic political culture that is reminiscent from the past. However, the quest of citizenship by individual Moroccans has never ceased as it historically revolved around a number of interrelated issues including human rights, the politics of identity and gender rights.