Quotes About Civic Engagement

#1. I think we're going to start to see a new model of civic advocacy where people get together once in a while to protest, but it's more about an ongoing, sustained engagement in issues, networks and communities about which people care.

Alex Steffen

#2. Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference. It means promoting the quality of life in a community, through both political and non-political processes.

Thomas Ehrlich

#3. If you are afraid of changes Watch from a distance Whether or not I might do something If you're going to talk about me behind my back It is what it is.

Ayumi Hamasaki

#4. If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.

Jane Fonda

#5. I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.

Al Franken

#6. Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Simone De Beauvoir

#7. The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.

Samuel

#8. What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membership.

Robert D. Putnam

#9. In Elizabethan England or classical Athens ... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.

Diane Paulus

#10. The most important political office is that of private citizen.

Louis D. Brandeis

#11. A man lived or died according to his decisions in life.

Lorraine Heath

#12. I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

Rashid Al-Ghannushi

#13. I would suggest that if you get in your kitchen and cook for yourself, you can eat like kings for a very low cost.

Joel Salatin

#14. Rather than assuming that education is primarily about preparing for jobs and careers, what would it mean to think of education as a process of guiding kids' participation in public life more generally, a public life that includes social, recreational, and civic engagement.

Mizuko Ito

#15. 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.'

David Byrne

#16. We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

Alastair Campbell

#17. In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.

Vartan Gregorian

#18. when civic engagement was not enough, when government failed, when private banks could no longer hold the line, Chicago turned to an old tool in the American repertoire - racial violence.

Anonymous