“I would call a two- or three-day conference in Sacramento, bringing together without regard to political affiliation from one thousand to three thousand concerned citizens from every nook and corner in California.”
Warren, Earl. The Memoirs of Earl Warren. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977. p. 206.
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“The outrage that tightens in the chests of teenagers is strengthened daily: contrasts between rich and poor, citizen and immigrant, labor and management, and then the unavoidable world news stories of occupation, invasion, destroyed cities and rivers, blasted wedding parties and family picnics in the high mountains of Afghanistan. Prisons as orphanages for grown men, caged in alien odors. These are the images the teens see.”
Howe, Fanny. The Needle's Eye: Passing through Youth. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2016. p. 8.
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“She turned into a world breeze whose breathing preceded her a boy looks out a car window the river the strong citizens practicing for marathons rowing running americans always look as if they are bursting”
Howe, Fanny. The Needle’s Eye: Passing through Youth. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2016. p. 5.
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“It is hard work being self-informed but it is essential work for the citizens of a democracy.
“It is a work, moreover, for which people in your position have been specially prepared.”
Marshall, Thurgood. “Commencement Address, University of Virginia” (speech, Charlottesville, VA, May 21, 1978)
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“This country is a united country in which all people have the same rights as citizens. We are grateful that we can trust in the youth of the nation that they are going on to uphold the real principles of democracy and put them into action in this country.”
Roosevelt, Eleanor. "Speech to the ACLU." Chicago, Illinois, March 14, 1940. Accessed Nov. & Dec., 2020
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“To the young people of the nation, I must speak a word tonight. You are going to have a great opportunity. There will be high moments in which your strength and your ability will be tested. I have faith in you. I feel as though I was standing upon a rock and that rock is my faith in my fellow citizens.”
Roosevelt, Eleanor. Address, Pearl Harbor Radio Address, December 07, 1941.
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“It is, rather, our duty to help educate our fellow citizens, to give the benefit of our special knowledge and understanding and then to join with them in the exercise of the democratic process.”
Pauling, Linus. "The Social Responsibilities of Scientists and Science." The Science Teacher 67, no. 1 (January 2000): p. 29.
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“In ancient Greece, where, so we are taught, democracy had its source, it cannot be overlooked that in spite of all the philosophical assertions of man’s freedom, in spite of the demand that man realize himself through exercising his freedom as a citizen of the polls, the majority of the people in Athens were not free. Women were not citizens and slavery was an accepted institution.”
Davis, Angela Y. Lectures on Liberation. New York: N.Y. Committee to Free Angela Davis, 1971.
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