“The decisions we make about the Internet don't affect just the Internet – they are answers to basic questions about the relationship each citizen has to the government and about the extent to which we trust one another with the full range of fundamental rights granted by the Constitution.” GovernmentDecisionAnswersRightsInternetCitizensConstitutionFundamentalsGrantedRangeDecisions We MakeFundamental Rights Book:Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age Source: Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age
“If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and value to the new. Youth yet unborn will pole up the Missouri with Lewis and Clark, or climb the Sierras with James Capen Adams, and each generation in turn will ask: Where is the big white bear? It will be a sorry answer to say he went under while conservationists weren't looking.” IfsBigsValuesTurnsAsksWhiteAnswersGenerationsYouthBearsCitizensAddWestSorryClimbsEducateUnbornRelicsSierraMissouriOld WestLewis And Clark Book:A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There
“I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?” BodyChoicesAnswersDemocracyPolicyCitizensThousandDirectBusyWork OutFavorsRepresentativesSelectedRight AnswersRedditDirect Democracy Author:Lawrence Lessig
“In I'm Not A Racist, But..., Lawrence Blum offers answers for our time about what race is, who is a racist, and ways for people to talk about the racialized features of our society without falling into name-calling or defensiveness. With exemplary moral and analytic clarity, Blum offers educators, students, lawyers, judges, leaders, and citizens tools for building a nation of equality, comity, and respect for each person.” PeopleWayPersonsFallNamesNationsAnswersRaceLeaderMoralStudentsBuildingJudgingCitizensCallingOffersToolsLawyerClarityFeaturesOur TimeOur SocietyRacistEducatorAnalyticsExemplaryName CallingDefensiveness Author:Martha Minow
“President Clinton says he looks forward to the day a citizen can call the IRS and get the right answer to a question. I look forward to the day I can call the IRS and get a voice that says, 'Sorry, that number has been disconnected.'” LooksHas BeensI CanPresidentVoiceAnswersNumbersCitizensClintonSorryDisconnectedIrsRight AnswersPresident ClintonSaying Sorry Author:Jay Leno
“Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let's seek to heal rather than to wound each other.” LawNationsUnderstandingCommunityHurtAnswersCitizensLet MeWoundsHealFerguson Author:Barack Obama
“My administration will not answer to donors or lobbyists or special interests, but we will serve the citizens of the United States of America, believe me.” BelieveStatesAmericaInterestAnswersUnitedUnited StatesSpecialCitizensAdministrationBelieve In MeUnited States Of AmericaSpecial InterestsDonorsLobbyists Author:Donald Trump