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Civic Quotes

Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as community entrepreneurship Picture Quote #1

The whole, ‘Is the Internet a good thing or a bad thing’? We’re done with that. It’s just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that’s the really big challenge Picture Quote #1

Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book Picture Quote #1

The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment Picture Quote #1

Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty Picture Quote #1

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things Picture Quote #1

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Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top Picture Quote #1

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it’s more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race Picture Quote #1

Civic participants don’t aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate Picture Quote #1

I’m convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life Picture Quote #1

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn’t just part of our civic responsibility. To me it’s an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is Picture Quote #1

Ultimately it’s the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they’re also civic and social centers Picture Quote #1

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Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so Picture Quote #1

I remember in the spring of 1971, a hundred thousand people converged on the Pentagon in June of 1971. They threw blood; I guess it was goat’s blood or something, on the steps to the Pentagon. People were being accused of being murderers and baby killers. You just can’t imagine the civic outrage Picture Quote #1

Malcolm X envisions a broad-based pluralistic united front, which is spearheaded by the Nation of Islam, but mobilizing integrationist organizations, non-political organizations, civic groups, all under the banner of building black empowerment, human dignity, economic development, political mobilization Picture Quote #1

Since the 1970s, we have witnessed the forces of market fundamentalism strip education of its public values, critical content, and civic responsibilities as part of its broader goal of creating new subjects wedded to consumerism, risk-free relationships, and the destruction of the social state Picture Quote #1

Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that growth - on the quality and the character of it - and where it ought to go. We don’t have to scatter the building blocks of our civic life all over the countryside, destroying our towns and ruining farmland Picture Quote #1

Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live Picture Quote #1

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There’s a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world Picture Quote #1

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does Picture Quote #1

I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism; and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space Picture Quote #1

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money Picture Quote #1

I was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our nation Picture Quote #1

Anyway, it’s not true that the authorities cannot access the content of the phone even if there is no back door. When I was at the NSA, we did this every single day, even on Sundays. I believe that encryption is a civic responsibility, a civic duty Picture Quote #1

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Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn’t have them, it’s our duty to invent them Picture Quote #1

I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation Picture Quote #1

I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‘Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.’ Picture Quote #1

I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility Picture Quote #1

. . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture remembers past events? Does the historian have a moral or civic responsibility to this project of memory that ought to influence the way he or she engages in historical practice? Should moral concerns influence the historian’s choice of subject matter, of issues to discuss, of evidence to use? Picture Quote #1

One of the things I really want is for people to feel the civic responsibility, and not just refuse to vote out of protest Picture Quote #1

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Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as community entrepreneurship (Civic Quotes) The whole, ‘Is the Internet a good thing or a bad thing’? We’re done with that. It’s just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that’s the really big challenge (Civic Quotes) Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book (Civic Quotes) The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment (Civic Quotes) Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty (Civic Quotes) U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things (Civic Quotes) Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top (Civic Quotes) Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it’s more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race. (Civic Quotes) Civic participants don’t aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate... (Civic Quotes) I’m convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life. (Civic Quotes) To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn’t just part of our civic responsibility. To me it’s an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is. (Civic Quotes) Ultimately it’s the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they’re also civic and social centers. (Civic Quotes) Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so. (Civic Quotes) I remember in the spring of 1971, a hundred thousand people converged on the Pentagon in June of 1971. They threw blood; I guess it was goat’s blood or something, on the steps to the Pentagon. People were being accused of being murderers and baby killers. You just can’t imagine the civic outrage. (Civic Quotes) Malcolm X envisions a broad-based pluralistic united front, which is spearheaded by the Nation of Islam, but mobilizing integrationist organizations, non-political organizations, civic groups, all under the banner of building black empowerment, human dignity, economic development, political mobilization. (Civic Quotes) Since the 1970s, we have witnessed the forces of market fundamentalism strip education of its public values, critical content, and civic responsibilities as part of its broader goal of creating new subjects wedded to consumerism, risk-free relationships, and the destruction of the social state. (Civic Quotes) Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that growth - on the quality and the character of it - and where it ought to go. We don’t have to scatter the building blocks of our civic life all over the countryside, destroying our towns and ruining farmland. (Civic Quotes) Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live. (Civic Quotes) There’s a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world. (Civic Quotes) The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does. (Civic Quotes) I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism; and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space. (Civic Quotes) Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money. (Civic Quotes) I was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our nation. (Civic Quotes) Anyway, it’s not true that the authorities cannot access the content of the phone even if there is no back door. When I was at the NSA, we did this every single day, even on Sundays. I believe that encryption is a civic responsibility, a civic duty. (Civic Quotes) Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn’t have them, it’s our duty to invent them. (Civic Quotes) I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation. (Civic Quotes) I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‘Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.’ (Civic Quotes) I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility. (Civic Quotes) . . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture remembers past events? Does the historian have a moral or civic responsibility to this project of memory that ought to influence the way he or she engages in historical practice? Should moral concerns influence the historian’s choice of subject matter, of issues to discuss, of evidence to use? (Civic Quotes) One of the things I really want is for people to feel the civic responsibility, and not just refuse to vote out of protest. (Civic Quotes)

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