Citizens Quote by Emmylou Harris

Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the…

— Parker Palmer

Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union.’ We’ve lost the…

— Parker J. Palmer

“The problem is that this kind of vilification and over-the-top rhetoric closes the door to the possibility of compromise. It undermines democratic deliberation. It…

— Barack Obama

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

— Mark Kingwell

“It may sound reactionary, I know. But we can all feel it. We've changed the way we think of ourselves as citizens. We don't…

— David Foster Wallace

We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for…

— Warren G. Harding

We need to lift up the nation so we can find a more civil way to deal with our disagreements because, in these United…

— Karen Handel

We're not citizens anymore. We're consumers. That's what we're called. It's just like being an alcoholic and being in denial that you're an alcoholic.…

— Yvon Chouinard

We see a decline of civility, and, sadly, it’s often modeled by the very people from whom we have the least right to expect…

— Max De Pree

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than…

— Colin Powell

How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and is more…

— Edward Snowden

My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. We can have strong differences,…

— Tom Brokaw