Civic Responsibility Quotes:

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.

- David McCullough

source: FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 06, 2012

topic: Art, Responsibility, Enlargement, Civics, Civic Duty

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.

- James A. Garfield

topic: Ignorance, Character, People, Personal Responsibility, Not Voting

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

- Donna Brazile

topic: School, Responsibility, Taught, Civics, Civic Responsibility

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

- Samuel Adams

topic: Country, Men, Liberty, American Voters, Civic Responsibility

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

topic: Mean, Responsibility, Work Out, Community Service, Civics

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

topic: Responsibility, Media, Abuse, Degrade, Civics

Anyway, it's not true that the authorities cannot access the content of the phone even if there is no back door. When I was at the NSA, we did this every single day, even on Sundays. I believe that encryption is a civic responsibility, a civic duty.

- Edward Snowden

source: Source: www.thenation.com

topic: Believe, Responsibility, Sunday, Civic Duty, Civic Responsibility

What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?

- Donna Tartt

topic: Beautiful, Strong, Responsibility, Civic Responsibility, Flare

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Country, Inaugural Speech, Independence Day Patriotic

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

topic: Children, Responsibility, Voting, Civic Responsibility

Of course, the new domestic paramilitary forces will also undermine free speech and dissent with the threat of force while simultaneously threatening core civil liberties, rights and civic responsibilities.

- Henry Giroux

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Responsibility, Rights, Liberty, Civic Responsibility

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

source: "Two Former Senators Share Thoughts On The 2016 Campaign". "Here & Now" with Jeremy Hobson, www.wbur.org. January 25, 2016.

topic: Responsibility, People, Want, Civic Responsibility

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

source: Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”

topic: Beauty, Responsibility, Modern, Civic Responsibility

Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities.

- George Nethercutt

topic: Country, Responsibility, Focus, Civic Responsibility, Proficiency

The challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that is about more than police brutality. This is especially clear in the United States, given its transformation from a social state to a warfare state, from a state that once embraced a semblance of the social contract to one that no longer has a language for justice, community and solidarity - a state in which the bonds of fear and commodification have replaced the bonds of civic responsibility and democratic vision.

- Henry Giroux

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Responsibility, People, Justice, Social Contract, Police Brutality

When my father began to work with President John. F.Kennedy, we moved to Washington, D.C. I was fortunate in my pre-adolescent years, as my social and political consciousness was developing, to live at the epicentre of that dynamic, idealistic, and inspiring moment in U.S. political history, with its ethos of personal and civic responsibility, summed up so succinctly in his exhortation: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country."

- Queen Noor of Jordan

topic: Country, Father, Responsibility, Idealistic, Civic Responsibility

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

topic: Party, Responsibility, Moral, Social Responsibility, Civic Responsibility

Theres something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.

- George Hickenlooper

topic: Responsibility, Unique, Rights, Civic Responsibility, Gilded

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

- Jim Lehrer

topic: Believe, Responsibility, Presidential, Civic Responsibility, Presidential Debate

People reared in workhouses, as you are aware, are no great acquisition to the community and they have no ideas whatsoever of civic responsibilities. As a rule their highest aim is to live at the expense of the ratepayers. Consequently, it would be a decided gain if they all took it into their heads to emigrate. When they go abroad they are thrown on their own responsibilities and have to work whether they like it or not.

- W. T. Cosgrave

topic: Responsibility, Ideas, People, Workhouses, Civic Responsibility

. . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture "remembers" past events? Does the historian have a moral or civic responsibility to this project of memory that ought to influence the way he or she engages in historical practice? Should moral concerns influence the historian's choice of subject matter, of issues to discuss, of evidence to use?

- Michael L Morgan

topic: Memories, Responsibility, Past, Society And Culture, Past Events