{"quotes":[{"text":"Until there is equal and fair portion of opportunities apportioned for every citizen, the power structure may need to be restructured.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["citizen","citizenship","danger","darkness","destruction","equality","fairness","god","ignorance","knowledge","life","light","mountain","opportunities","people","power","power-structure","restructure","structure"],"id":1160,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another's point of view, but instead were more and more enclosed in our own bubbles. Democracy requires a reliance on shared facts; instead were being offered parallel but separate universes.","author":"Eli Pariser","tags":["citizenship","democracy","dialogue","polarization"],"id":1742,"author_id":"Eli+Pariser"},{"text":"I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.","author":"Craig Ferguson","tags":["america","citizenship","thought"],"id":5570,"author_id":"Craig+Ferguson"},{"text":"If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.","author":"David H. Hackworth","tags":["activism","change","citizenship","policy"],"id":9533,"author_id":"David+H.+Hackworth"},{"text":"[T]he success of democracy depends, in the end, on the reliability of the judgments we citizens make, and hence upon our capacity and determination to weigh arguments and evidence rationally.","author":"Irving M. Copi","tags":["citizenship","democracy","logic"],"id":9725,"author_id":"Irving+M.+Copi"},{"text":"Practical utility, however, is not the ultimate purpose of a liberal arts education. Its ultimate purpose is to help you learn to reflect in the widest and deepest sense, beyond the requirements of work and career: for the sake of citizenship, for the sake of living well with others, above all, for the sake of building a self that is strong and creative and free.","author":"William Deresiewicz","tags":["citizenship","creativity","education","liberal-arts","self"],"id":17775,"author_id":"William+Deresiewicz"},{"text":"This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework that would guarantee that the men who fought felt that they themselves in a formal and contractual sense had ratified the conditions of their own battle service. The ancient Western world would soon come to define itself by culture rather than by race, skin color, or language. That idea alone would eventually bring enormous advantages to its armies on the battlefield. (p. 122).","author":"Victor Davis Hanson","tags":["citizenship","civilization","consent","contract-for-service","government","politics","rome","soldiers","voluteer-army","war","warfare","western-culture"],"id":28457,"author_id":"Victor+Davis+Hanson"},{"text":"It is a tragedy, at rate at which EBOLA VIRUS is spreading in West Africa. It is a fatal disease in the history of the world. Intensive education (formal and informal approaches) of the citizens of African can help prevent the spread. International cooperation is urgently needed to combat the EBOLA virus.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["africa","africans","cities-and-countries","citizen","citizen-of-the-world","citizens","citizens-of-humanity","citizens-of-the-world","citizenship","collaborate","collaborations","college-life","combat","combat-diseases","cooperation","cooperation-s","disease","disease-prevention","diseases","ebola","ebola-disease","ebola-in-africa","ebola-in-central-africa","ebola-in-spain","ebola-in-usa","ebola-in-west-africa","ebola-origin","ebola-spread","ebola-victims","ebola-virus","educate","educate-children","educate-people","educate-the-youth-of-africa","educate-women","educated","educated-people","education","education-system","educational-philosophy","educational","educação","help","helpers","helpful","helping-hand","helping-mankind","helping-others","helping-out","helping-the-needy","helping-the-poor","international","international-","international-community","international-development","international-law","international-relations","prevent","prevent-it","preventative-medicine","preventing","prevention","prevention-is-better-than-cure","prevention-of-diseases-in-africa","prevention-of-ebola","supporting","supporting-family","supporting-others","supportive-actions","supportive","virus","west-africa"],"id":37719,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"The Prussian monarchy is not a country which has an army, but an army which has a country in which – as it were – it is just stationed.","author":"Georg Henrich Von Berenhorst","tags":["citizenship","loyalty","military-civilian-relations","modern-warfare"],"id":39748,"author_id":"Georg+Henrich+Von+Berenhorst"},{"text":"Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country’s well-being.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice","answers-to-prayers","believers","bible","christian-life","christian-living","christian","citizens","citizens-of-the-world","citizenship","country","country-life","faith","god","great-men-and-women","humanity-advice","humanity-and-society","humanity","inner-strength","inspirational","inspiring-thoughts","interceed","intercessory-prayer","nationality","nations","people","positive-thinking","prayer","prayerful-habits","religion-and-philosophy","religious-faith","spiritual","spirituality","warfare-prayers","warriors","warriors-path","well-being","wellness","wisdom","wise-words"],"id":40396,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":56,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}