Formation Quote by Patrick Geddes

Civics is in fact politics, and politics is how things work not only in the political realm but in every other realm. It may…

— Ken Burns

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership…

— Rosa Luxemburg

“The big organizing model that can fuel revolutions believes that communities are filled with talented and intelligent people who understand what is broken and,…

— Becky Bond

Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the…

— Margaret Mead

The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.

— Aaron Wildavsky

Civic participation over a lifetime, working in neighborhoods and communities and service of all kinds - military and civilian, full-time and part-time, national and…

— John McCain

A movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances. It grows because of the habits of…

— Charles Duhigg

Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and…

— Thomas Ehrlich

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

— Max Weber

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The way in which a society organizes the life of its members ... is one "project" of realization among others. But once the project…

— Herbert Marcuse

Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference in…

— Robert D. Putnam