“A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world.” WorldGivingCommunitySpaceHavensInformationCitizensEqualSafetyMental HealthLibraryAccess Book:The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“I am grateful to the motherland and the people. I feel honored to fly into space on behalf of hundreds of millions of female Chinese citizens.” PeopleFeelsSpaceMillionsCitizensFemaleGratefulChineseHonoredBehalfI Am GratefulMotherland Author:Liu Yang
“The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings, easily given to violence; that we get along together because we must more than because we want to, and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was two thousand years ago; that reason's realm is small; that we never have been and never shall be created equal; that if the human being is perfectible, he has so far exhibited few symptoms - all are considerations of man from which space tends to protect us.” IfsMenWantYearsHumansHas BeensTwoReasonRealityTodayTogetherGivenHuman BeingsSpaceCitiesViolenceCitizensThousandProtectEqualYears AgoInventionRealmsConsiderationAggressiveBrotherhoodThousand YearsSymptomsBrotherhood Of Man Author:Robert Ardrey
“It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.” SpaceCitizensFrontiersExplorers Author:Buzz Aldrin
“Too often girls accept that of course the boys will get better lighting and seating at their sports events, of course the football team will get more attention, privileges, and space in the yearbook. We need to teach girls to look around and notice when they're being treated like second-class citizens, and then to insist on equal treatment.” NeedsLooksGirlCoursesSportsSpaceAttentionAcceptingClassBoysTeachTeamEventsFootballCitizensEqualPrivilegeEqualityTreatedGet BetterTreatmentWomens RightsLightingFootball TeamSecond Class CitizensYearbookEqual Treatment Author:Mariah Nelson
“More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.” ThinkingInterestSpaceActingImagineCitizensResourcesStrangerCorporateSolidarityRetreatPrivate LifeTakeovers Author:Rebecca Solnit
“America's remaining wild horses are under aggressive attack and rapidly disappearing from government-managed, citizen-owned wilderness spaces.” GovernmentAmericaSpaceCitizensHorseDisappearWildernessAggressiveWild Horses Author:Zoe Helene
“The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.” ImportantHouseFeltPresidentSpaceCitizensTravelOrdinaryExcitementRepresentativesFunny TravelSpace TravelOrdinary Citizens Author:Christa McAuliffe