Best citizens & active Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“As citizen-activists the world over merge, they can become an irresistible force to create peace and protect the planet. From here will come a new movement to abolish nuclear weapons and all weapons of mass destruction. From here will come the demand for sustainable communities, for new systems of energy, transportation and commerce. From here comes the future rushing in on us. How does one acquire the capacity for active citizenship? The opportunities exist every day...Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.”

“A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generation - my generation - knows from four very bitter experiences. Just as America's will for peace is second to none, so will America's strength be second to none. We cannot rely on the forbearance of others to protect this Nation. The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security.”

“The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security.”

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Book:Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

Source: Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

“[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.”

Past Animal Fate Citizens Politician Hatred Active Indifference Historian Zookeepers

Book:Beatrice & Virgil

Source: Beatrice & Virgil

“In 1776, 1950, or now, there's never been a golden age of liberty, and there never will be. People who value freedom will always have to defend it from those who claim the right to wield power over others. ... And, in today's world, that means more than a musket by the door. It means being an active citizen.”

People World Mean Age Today Values Liberty Doors Citizens Claims Active Golden Golden Age Today's World Power Over Others

Author:David Boaz

“What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.”

“The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title "people," and they refer to one another individually as "citizens" when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as "subjects" when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.”

People Kind States Use Body Law Subjects Citizens Members Authority Active Titles Compare Passive Sovereign Participation Subordination

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.”

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Author:Howard Zinn

“I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have to shatter our complacency and become "active souls,"and be prepared to engage in aware - that personal struggle between our grief and our sorrow. But I don't think we have any choice.”

Thinking Soul Choices Can Do Grief Struggle Citizens Sorrow Prepared Active Be Prepared Complacency Citizenry Personal Struggle

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe because in the long run stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty. ... The global wave of democracy has barely reached the Arab states. For too long, many people in that region have been victims and subjects. They deserve to be active citizens.”

“I don't know how you feel, my brethren and sisters, but I'd rather be dead than to lose my liberty. I have no fear we'll ever lose it because of invasion from the outside. But I do have fear that it may slip away from us because of our own indifference, our own negligence, as citizens of this land. And so I plead with you this morning that you take an active interest in matters pertaining to the future of this country.”

Source: So shall ye reap: selected addresses

“There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.”

Problem Democracy Citizens Ordinary Active Citizenship No Problem Daily Work Ordinary Citizens Active Citizenship

Author:Joan Claybrook

“I'm not active in politics. I vote as a citizen. And if somebody cares to know what my opinion is at the time of the election, I might or might not share it publicly.”

Ifs Knows Might Care Opinion Share Citizens Vote Election Active

Author:Colin Powell

“Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved from active concern for their plight. It does mean that their plight is subordinate to the plight of those citizens who do not experiment with drugs but whose life, liberty, and property are substantially affected by the illegalization of the drugs sought after by the minority.”

Mean Doe Suffering Liberty Citizens Drug Concern Abuse Blame Property Active Experiments Minorities Affected Subordinates Plight

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“My start in politics was watching my parents go to the polls on election day. It reminded me that being an active, engaged citizen and voter is critical to the success of our democracy.”

Parent Democracy Citizens Election Critical Active Engaged Voters Polls Election Day

Author:Josh Earnest

“It may not be what you would've chosen, but we all have a responsibility to be active citizens and shape our system and our future.”

May Responsibility Citizens Shapes Active Chosen Our Future

Author:Susan Rice

“There is always the risk in advocating for democracy that the first people to wake up might not be your team, but that is a risk worth taking. I would rather have citizens I don't agree with organized and active than an oligarchy of people that I agree with.”

People Firsts Might Democracy Risk Team Citizens Wake Up Agree Active Organized Advocating Oligarchy

Author:Naomi Wolf

“As Muslims, we are all equals, we abide by the laws and we understand that we have to be active citizens wherever we are. Our goals are first to live by our principles, to remind people of these values, to reconcile our respective societies with these shared universal values and to try our best to push for a spiritual agenda with more ethics in society, in politics, in economics, and in culture.”

People Trying Firsts Spiritual Law Values Culture Goal Principles Citizens Ethics Economics Universal Active Agendas Live By Reconcile

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“Active people to revitalize what is really the root of democracy: citizens communicating with each other. Democracy is not just about voting, it's about citizens talking with each other about the issues which concern them. We've lost a great deal of that in the age of the mass media.”

People Age Lost Deals Talking Democracy Issues Media Citizens Mass Concern Roots Communicate Active Voting Mass Media

Author:Howard Rheingold

“Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.”

People Art Young Community Groups Citizens Concerned Organization Active Neighborhood Association Leisure Civics Worshippers

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.”

Government Might Father Citizens Empathy Assuming Critics Active Expected Apathy Founding Serfs

Author:Joseph Sobran

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