Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Citizenry Quotes from famous authors such as Don Tapscott, Carl Sagan, Alex Padilla, Cory Booker, Jonathan Demme. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
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Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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A civically engaged citizenry feeds oxygen to our democracy.
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Government has got to open up and engage citizenry as partners.
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The media has not done a great job in fulfilling their role – journalism’s role in a democracy is to provide information on profoundly important subjects so we’re an informed citizenry.
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The media has not done a great job in fulfilling their role – journalism’s role in a democracy is to provide information on profoundly important subjects so we’re an informed citizenry.
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Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.
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Cultivating a thoughtful citizenry is a project for educators, parents, and religious and community leaders as much as tech leaders.
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Protecting space for civil society and citizenry is particularly critical in a world marked by rising political and economic inequality.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry – to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.
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Protecting space for civil society and citizenry is particularly critical in a world marked by rising political and economic inequality.
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Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.
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Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.
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Government has got to open up and engage citizenry as partners.
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America’s state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that ‘treason’ is morally worse than murder or rape.
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In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.
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Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.
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America’s state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that ‘treason’ is morally worse than murder or rape.
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In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.
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The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
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The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
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A civically engaged citizenry feeds oxygen to our democracy.
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This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus in this country, and the overwhelming consensus of the citizenry, will be to pitch the Bill of Rights out the window and start rounding folks up.
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Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.
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This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus in this country, and the overwhelming consensus of the citizenry, will be to pitch the Bill of Rights out the window and start rounding folks up.
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Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.
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Openness, transparency – these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt… and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.
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We must rediscover our faith in the future and join with one another to ensure that nonviolence is the prevalent choice for government, law enforcement, the non-profit sector, business, education, media, entertainment, arts, and for the global citizenry.
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America already suffers from a uniformed and increasingly polarized citizenry. FOX seems to eagerly exploit this dynamic, and in so doing, accentuate it.
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Lawsuits – and frivolous lawsuits – are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana.
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We lack an educated, resilient citizenry capable of navigating the increasing complexities of daily life.
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I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who’s in the military. This is not for law enforcement. This is for us. And, in fact, when you read that Constitution and the Founding Fathers, they intended this to stop tyranny.
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Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a ‘third place,’ which is not their idea; it’s the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.
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Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that’s its highest and best application.
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Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.
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Democracy requires an informed citizenry able to question its government.
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Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to the Congo, bridging religions, cultures and a multitude of ethnicities, were able to construct a prosperous and peaceful state from our diverse citizenry, so too could the rest of Africa.
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The government needs to invest in raising digital fluency of its citizenry.
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Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry – to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.
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Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they’re willing to take that risk.
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Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that’s its highest and best application.
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Cultivating a thoughtful citizenry is a project for educators, parents, and religious and community leaders as much as tech leaders.
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Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.
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America already suffers from a uniformed and increasingly polarized citizenry. FOX seems to eagerly exploit this dynamic, and in so doing, accentuate it.
