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“I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes a mistake and gets an issue wrong.”

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Author:Rick Santorum

“An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The goal of cable news executives is not to make me an informed citizen of Earth. Their mission is to tickle the dark reptilian depths of my brain and hook me so they can then barter with my soul for advertising revenue.”

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Author:Guy P. Harrison

“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”

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Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”

“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.”

“All of those on the left, as I am, have always vastly preferred the democratic society over the hierarchical society and still do, but the democratic culture doesn't exist without highly informed citizens capable of thinking well, and if you have schools in which 40 percent of the people coming out of them cannot make change for a dollar, you don't have a democracy. You have a sibling society.”

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Author:Robert Bly

“Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.”

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Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before”

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Author:Dahr Jamail

“Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make one quest: liberty and justice for all. Whether one's special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.”

Source: The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

“Whether on'e special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.”

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Author:Carl Safina

“We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.”

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Book:Einstein on Peace

Source: Einstein on Peace

“Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.”

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Author:Paul Collier