There's a great book by my friend Nate Garvis called Naked Civics that was very important in my development as someone with… — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
I think that I'll always remember the bust of Dr. [Martin Luther] King. I thought having an American here who represented rhat… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
“Democracy commits us to value, preserve and uphold the rights, dignity, and well-being of all, including our neighbors, those who are different… — Diane Kalen-Sukra Copy Share Image
Notice that all the traditional things philosophers do, looking for validity and soundness, promote civic friendship. That sounds pretty pie in the… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that… — Jack Lessenberry Copy Share Image
In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
Theres something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
What is our civic duty when our system of civics is broken? When our politics are so partisan that we put our… — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to change human nature. There will always be cranks and conspiracy theorists among us. But we can try to… — John Avlon Copy Share Image
Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved… — George Nethercutt Copy Share Image
In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
Civics isn't something where you learned - learn it for a couple weeks in high school; it is who we are. Americans… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
Anyway, it's not true that the authorities cannot access the content of the phone even if there is no back door. When… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
If America is to be great in the future, it will be if we understand that our source is not civic and… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
Our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding and behavior… — William Damon Copy Share Image
In our schools, they're supposed to be taught to read and write and do mathematics. We are supposed to be teaching them… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
I think a lot of concern of the people in the north is that one hears constant reports in talking to them… — Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Copy Share Image
A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum -… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I think we're going to start to see a new model of civic advocacy where people get together once in a while… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
There is a different spelling between "rights" and "rites" - in other words, civic legislators and ecclesiastical councils have different responsibilities. — Otis Moss III Copy Share Image
In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real… — Tim Heidecker Copy Share Image
Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
In her religious role, the Queen is head of the Church of England, but in her civic role she cares for all… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
I've long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I've long felt that… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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