Citizens Quotes - Page 27

• Citizen journalists can attend events traditional journalists are kept from - or have overlooked - or find and highlight the small but evocative story happening right next door. By tapping this resource, news sites can extend their reach and help redefine news gathering in the digital age.

  Arianna Huffington

  Doors, Age, Events

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• If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.

  Muhammad Ali

  Class, Cadillacs, Firsts

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• My audience is made up of two groups of people. The first group includes people whose roots are deep in the Christian faith, but for whom the traditional symbols, as traditionally understood, no longer make sense. The other audience is the audience that has left. I call them the Church Alumni Association, citizens of the secular city. They are a bit nostalgic about this faith of their childhood, but they aren't really interested in trotting it out or becoming involved with it again as it is presently organized.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Cities, Two

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• Human beings are hardwired by however many millions or billions of years to orient toward their own survival. That's why we're tribal people. That's why we're prejudiced people.
  That's why we treat women as second-class citizens, that's why we are homophobic, and that's why we make religion a weapon to prove we're superior to other people.

  John Shelby Spong

  Years, Class, People

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I'm not trying to say stop Donald Trump from being elected as his party's nominee. I'm saying that we have a responsibility to raise our voices, to say what he does as an American citizen is pretty destructive to the practice of goodhearted and conscientious politics.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Party, Responsibility, Practice

  Source: www.npr.org

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• He's [Louis Brandais] so suspicious of bigness in government as well as business that he mistrusts even really top-down reforms at the state level. The most inspiring part of his legacy to me is his belief in the imperative and duty of self-education on behalf of citizens.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Top Down, Government, Self

  Source: www.slate.com

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• It can sound trite if you just say citizens need to be educated for democracy to work, but for him it wasn't trite. It was really this strenuous challenge to citizens to use their moments of leisure, which he defined as time away from work, to collect the facts that were necessary for full democratic participation.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Challenges, Democracy, Sound

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• Why I find Louis Brandeis so exciting and inspiring because he's teaching us - good legal writing is not a matter of taste, it's a matter of connection with fellow citizens and of democratic education.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Teaching, Writing, Connections

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The press is supposed to equip people to act as citizens and not just consumers of programming that happens to be news.

  David Folkenflik

  People, News, Programming

  "What Is - Or Should Be - Media's Role In Donald Trump's Rise?". "Weekend Edition Saturday", www.npr.org. April 2, 2016.

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• It's a sad day in America when foreign governments with deep pockets have more influence in our own country than our great citizens.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Government, America

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• There are a lot of people - and I'm not talking about elected Democrats - there are a lot of your fellow citizens - you don't know them, you don't know where they are - but there's many more of them than you know and realize, and they revel in all of this. They love the chaos. They love the majority being disturbed, bothered, shaken up by it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Talking, People, Majority

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I had to call in because I do believe, I know of cases, it is happening that some of these kids that weren't born here but they've lived here all their lives, they are being deported. And I also know of cases where the kids are born here, they're American citizens, they're put in foster homes and their parents are deported, and their parents are begging to get their kids back. That actually is happening.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Home, Kids

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• For years now, the fake European 'left' is trying to portray European citizens as victims of the US imperialism. It is even trying to make the world feel sorry for those European workers who do not get a fair deal from their governments! It is thoroughly absurd.

  Andre Vltchek

  Sorry, Government, Years

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Overwhelming the majority of European citizens are unhappy with the social deal they get, yes; and that is why they are so angry with their governments. Because they want more, much more! They couldn't care less that their benefits, salaries and other privileges, have been, for decades and centuries 'subsidized' by the plunder of other parts of the planet; that they are paid for by blood.

  Andre Vltchek

  Government, Blood, Unhappy

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Obviously, our political system is profoundly corrupted by, among other things, the influence of money. But, at a deeper level, the current structure is flawed because it looks to citizens for only two things - votes and money. I don't think we will see any healing until citizens are viewed in a whole new way.

  Marianne Williamson

  Healing, Thinking, Two

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Passion, Thinking, Natural Talent

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The right tends to posit that the market fuels social good. The left tends to posit that the government fuels social good. At bottom, democracy claims that citizens drive social good, but there is currently no container for a political force-field that stakes claim to the unbelievable resources now virtually untapped in every man, woman, and child in our society.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Men, Force Fields

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• In medicine, we have invented an entirely new healing paradigm. Now we no longer simply look to the doctor and to medicine to heal us. We now recognize what has been substantiated scientifically everywhere from Harvard to Duke to Stanford - that the power of the mental and spiritual consciousness of the patient is as significant in healing as physical factors are. If we apply that same paradigm to politics, we see that the mind and the spiritual consciousness of the citizen are every bit as important as anything that goes on in the government.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Healing, Medicine

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Let's not forget that one poll after another clearly demonstrates that well over 50% of Russian citizens still wants both socialism and the USSR back. And the Russian government is listening.

  Andre Vltchek

  Government, Listening, Want

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There are tribes, I should say nations, which prior to the AIM movement had only ten or fifteen employees, and now have upwards of 2000. There are educational programs that didn't exist before, there are housing programs, health programs, senior citizen programs, cultural programs and the list goes on. It's all because some people stood up and said sovereignty is our right by treaty and the constitution says treaty law is the supreme law of the land.

  Leonard Peltier

  Senior, Educational, Law

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• The new Rwanda is about building an economy that delivers prosperity and opportunity for our citizens based on a robust private sector. Foreign adventures would be costly and counterproductive distractions from these challenging objectives.

  Paul Kagame

  Adventure, Opportunity, Challenges

  "Exclusive interview: Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda". Interview with Tony Metcalf, www.metro.us. August 29, 2012.

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• Rwanda is a very open and free country. Key to our recovery as a nation has a range of grassroots, citizen-centered polices we call "homegrown solutions." The idea that Rwanda is highly controlled from the center belies the reality, which is that citizens in every village have a powerful say in how things get done. We prize accountability and Rwandans are quickly adapting themselves to the possibilities of a digital economy.

  Paul Kagame

  Country, Powerful, Recovery

  "Exclusive interview: Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda". Interview with Tony Metcalf, www.metro.us. August 29, 2012.

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• It was not the United States who invaded Kuwait; it was Iraq. It was not the United States that went to war with Iran; it was Iraq. It was not the United States that fired chemical weapons at Iran; it was Iraq. And it was not the United States that murdered innocent Iraqi citizens with chemical weapons; it was Iraq.

  Colin Powell

  War, Iran, Kuwait

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• She [Justice sandra Day O'Connor] rejected the [George] Bush administration's claim that it could indefinitely detain a United States citizen. She upheld the fundamental principle of judicial review over the exercise of government power.

  Patrick Leahy

  Exercise, Government, Justice

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• She [Justice sandra Day O'Connor] wrote - and this is one we should all remember - she wrote that even war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens. She held that even this president is not above the law.

  Patrick Leahy

  War, Rights, Law

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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