“Our commitment to this founding principle is especially relevant today. Americans are united as rarely before in compassion and generosity for our fellow citizens whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The powerful winds and floodwater of Katrina tore away the mask that has hidden from public view the many Americans who are left out and left behind.” Has BeensTodayLeftUnitedViewsPowerfulBehindsCompassionPrinciplesWindCitizensCommitmentFellowsGenerosityMaskRelevantFoundingLeft BehindHurricanesLeft OutDevastatedKatrinaHurricane Katrina Author:Edward Kennedy
“When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians, not fall in meekly behind them. We who protest...are not politicians. We are citizens. Whatever politicians may do, let them first feel the full force of citizens who speak for what is right, not for what is winnable, in a shamefully timorous Congress.” FeelsFirstsMayFallSpeakForceSocialChallengesBehindsRolesMovementCitizensPoliticianForgottenCongressCompromiseProtestLegislatorsSocial Movements Author:Howard Zinn
“The private citizen today has come to feel rather like a deaf spectator in the back row, who ought to keep his mind on the mystery off there, but cannot quite manage to keep awake. He knows he is somehow affected by what is going on. Rules and regulations continually, taxes annually and wars occasionally remind him that he is being swept along by great drifts of circumstance. Yet these public affairs are in no convincing way his affairs. They are for the most part invisible. They are managed, if they are managed at all, at distant centers, from behind the scenes, by unnamed powers.” IfsKnowsWayFeelsMindWarTodayBehindsMysteryOughtCitizensCircumstancesSceneTaxesAffairInvisibleManageAwakeAffectedRegulationDeafConvincingSpectatorsBehind The ScenesPublic AffairsRules And Regulations Book:The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny. All the way through Civil War, through the great World Wars, this nation has been defended by the tradition of common ordinary folks who come from behind the plow, come from the store-clerking, come from the classrooms, and so forth to get on the battlefields - ordinary citizens turned into heroes in defense of their liberty, because that's the potential of freedom.” WorldWayHas BeensWarNationsCommonBehindsLibertyHeroCitizensOrdinaryTraditionFolksDefenseStoresTyrannyRevolutionaryWar Of The WorldsCivil WarClassroomBattlefieldsRevolutionary WarOrdinary Citizens Author:Alan Keyes
“When I was in Vietnam I learned a lot about the promises that soldiers make to each other. The Marines have a promise to never leave behind their dead. In this country, as citizen soldiers, we need to make the commitment to each other that we will never leave our veterans behind.” NeedsCountryBehindsCitizensPromiseCommitmentSoldierVietnamVeteranMarineOur Veterans Author:John F. Kerry
“In the final analysis, the progress of our civilization will be retarded if any large body of citizens falls behind. Without the help of thousands of others, any one of us would die, naked and starved.” IfsHelpingBodyDiesFallBehindsProgressCitizensCivilizationFinalsNakedAnalysisRetarded Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I'm of the belief that you can have only one commander-in-chief at a time, only one president at a time. President Bush is our president. Whatever he decides vis-a-vis war or peace in Iraq is what we will do as a country. And I for one will swing in behind him as a citizen ... and support whatever his decision is.” WarCountryBeliefPresidentDecisionBehindsSupportCitizensIraqChiefsSwingsPresident BushCommandersCommander In Chief Author:Dan Rather
“ISIS are actively recruiting Americans. The attacker in San Bernardino was an American citizen, born and raised in this country. He was a health inspector; had a newborn child and left all that behind to kill 14 people.” PeopleChildrenCountryLeftBornBehindsCitizensRaisedIsisAmerican CitizensNewbornBorn And RaisedInspectorsNewborn Child Author:Marco Rubio
“Well, what I will tell you is the support from the world - it's not just an African-American citizen. There are people of all different walks of life who are rallying behind the concerns with the that Sandy was treated because what that says to me is that this is an American issue.” PeopleWorldWellsDifferentWalksBehindsSupportIssuesCitizensConcernTreatedAfrican AmericanAmerican CitizensWalks Of LifeSandyRallyingDifferent Walks Of Life Author:Sharon Cooper