Quotes About Our Civic Responsibility

#1. To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]

David McCullough

#2. We in the Jewish community must ask ourselves what role we are going to play in changing policies and practices that discriminate against LGBT Americans. We have a special responsibility and civic duty to ensure that all Americans are treated with dignity and equality.

Lynn Schusterman

#3. NC passed law against global warming science, therefore it's not happening. So I'm ignoring Twitter's 140-character limit, so it's not happ

Stephen Colbert

#4. Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

Charles W. Pickering

#5. In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn about the world around them, develop a sense of civic and social responsibility, and discover how they can contribute to the common good?

Ernest L. Boyer

#6. There is a Party of fiscal responsibility ... economic responsibility ... social responsibility ... civic responsibility ... personal responsibility ... and moral responsibility. That party is the Democratic Party.

Howard Dean

#7. Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.

Christine Pelosi

#8. In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Barack Obama

#9. Every so often, in the midst of chaos, you come across an amazing, inexplicable instance of civic responsibility. Maybe the last shred of faith people have is in their firemen.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. There is a different spelling between "rights" and "rites" - in other words, civic legislators and ecclesiastical councils have different responsibilities.

Otis Moss III

#11. I started sfCiti because I believed that technology companies needed to take a 'One City' approach and build a shared sense of community and civic responsibility in San Francisco.

Ron Conway

#12. The successful have the courage to walk each day toward something;only after coming through something.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#13. I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.

Jim Lehrer

#14. I was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our nation.

Paul Cook

#15. Shame on you. Don't tell me you've been married for an hour and you've already got eyes for another woman.

Mordecai Richler

#16. I'm just trying to do my part to save the world.

J. Cornell Michel

#17. Like many wealthy Americans, he was imbued with a sense of civic responsibility

Anthony Horowitz

#18. You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.

Christine Pelosi

#19. Perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#20. It's not what you play, it's how you play it.

Mary Lou Williams

#21. You cannot attack a servant without attacking his master.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#22. Democracy transformed from thin paper to thick action is the greatest form of government on earth.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#23. He smirks and cranks his glorious smile up another notch so it's in full HD IMAX.

E.L. James

#24. By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons should be complemented by work outside the classroom. Service-learning does just that, tying community service to academic learning.

John Glenn

#25. Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

Donna Brazile

#26. One of the things I really want is for people to feel the civic responsibility, and not just refuse to vote out of protest.

Trent Lott