#citizen

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble. ↗

— Emmylou Harris

#citizens #civility #each #educated #get

The connection has been lost between the country's direction, especially with regard to the way in which the economy has been run, and the citizen. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#between #citizen #connection #country #direction

As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs. ↗

— Kurt Huber

#citizen #destiny #duty #expose #german

The key to any successful plan is buy-in from the public, and what this process has demonstrated is the importance of including citizens in formulating a consensus plan that preserves our beautiful refuge. ↗

— Ron Kind

#beautiful #citizens #consensus #demonstrated #formulating

I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#american citizen #become #citizen #course #i

What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people involved - versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule. ↗

— Elinor Ostrom

#having #ignored #importance #involved #involvement

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen. ↗

— Rosa Parks

#citizen #i #like #second-class #tired

The United States is an easy country to love because you can take it on faith that, at some point in every waking hour of the day, there is among your fellow citizens a vast exaltation of opinions that test the outer boundaries of the Crazoid. ↗

— Charles P. Pierce

#crazy #united-states #faith

There is no reason to think a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world; Indeed, that's the only thing that ever has. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#justice #change

The world has closed its eyes to the humanitarian catastrophe in Azerbaijan, where every seventh citizen is a refugee. ↗

— Leonid Kuchma

#citizen #closed #every #eyes #humanitarian