“I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.” FirstsIdeasVirtueCitizensUnderstoodWillingnessDiscourseCivilityPublic Discourse Author:Mark Kingwell
“Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny have created an important political radio show that balances humor and unreported news. At a time when media conglomerates dominate the airwaves, independent media like Citizen Radio is vital to national discourse.” ImportantShowsPoliticalMediaBalanceCitizensNewsIndependentRadioDiscourseJamieAllisonIndependent Media Author:Noam Chomsky
“The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We can speak any language we want at the dinner table, but English is the language of public discourse, or the marketplace and of the voting booth.” WantPoliticalSpeakLanguageShareIdentityCitizensTablesDinnerCoreVotingTicketsParticipationDiscourseMarketplacePolitical LifeDinner TablePublic Discourse Author:S. I. Hayakawa
“That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has always been a struggle in our politics.” BookDreamEyeFatherBlackWhiteStruggleCitizensExerciseGayEmpathyThemeImmigrantsDiscourseThrough The EyesPublic DiscourseDreams From My Father Author:Barack Obama
“For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.” ValuesCitizensDemandSakeDiscourseFree MarketAdvocacyPublic Discourse Author:Christine Pelosi