"A
passive and ignorant citizenry will never create a sustainable world."
--
Andrew Gaines
"Which
is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves."
--Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
"The
job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open."
-- Gunter Grass
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Without
free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent
nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the
citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
-- Vaclav
Havel |  |
"A
generation that acquires knowledge without ever understanding how that knowledge
can benefit the community is a generation that is not learning what it means to
be citizens in a democracy."
-- Elizabeth L. Hollander (1817-1885)
"If
you look back in history, you will find the core mission of public education in
America was to create places of civic virtue for our children and for our society.
As education undergoes the rigors of re-examination and the need for reinvention,
it is cruicial to remember that the key role of public schools is to preserve
democracy and, that as battered as we might be, our mission is central to the
future of this county."
-- Paul D. Houston, Executive director of the American
Association of School Administrators
"A
community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm."
-- Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (1828-1906)
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"A nation, as a society,
forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his
society."
-- Thomas
Jefferson "It
is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together,
are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately."
--
Thomas Jefferson |
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"Ask
not what your country can do for you…Ask what you can do for your country."
-- John F. Kennedy "The
efforts of the government alone will never be enough. In the end the people must
choose and the people must help themselves."
-- John
F. Kennedy | 
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