{"quotes":[{"text":"A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.","author":"Theodore Roosevelt","tags":["civic-duty","democracy","elections","voters"],"id":83710,"author_id":"Theodore+Roosevelt"},{"text":"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.'; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile].","author":"David McCullough","tags":["civic-duty","civic-responsibility","history","humanity","life","mankind","responsibility"],"id":85011,"author_id":"David+McCullough"},{"text":"The generation of American men who fought the Second World War were too struck by the scale of the effort – and the stakes of the effort – to see the war as a stage for their own personal heroism. Most men seem to have taken the lesson that there's enough honor in doing a hard job when you have to.","author":"Jeremy Rabkin","tags":["civic-duty","discipleship","self-sacrifice","teamwork"],"id":136456,"author_id":"Jeremy+Rabkin"},{"text":"The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["americans","barack-obama","choosing","civic-duty","courage","democratic-national-convention","famous","fear","gun-violence","hope","legacies","making-choices","mitt-romney","options","patriotism","police-reform","police-shootings","political-advocacy","political-awareness","political-philosophy","political-responsibility","politics","presidential-election","presidential-election-campaign","by-aberjhani","republican-national-convention","savannah--aberjhani","social-awareness","social-responsibility","the-future","vision-of-america","voting","xenophobia"],"id":143161,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Civic duty? Perhaps it would be a little naive to try to coerce me into voting. I assure you my basic standards of healthy living are very different from yours, which is the reason I do not vote. You should note that, as nonsensical a scenario, if forced to choose I would most definitely rather live in a failing, Christ-honoring, God-fearing nation than a flourishing one that mocks said Creator. Beware of my personal ambitions.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["ambition","civic-duty","country","democracy","democracy-voting","elections","god","healthy","mock","political","theocracy","voting"],"id":143215,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.","author":"Theodore Roosevelt","tags":["civic-duty","dissent","patriotism","patriots","protest"],"id":191951,"author_id":"Theodore+Roosevelt"},{"text":"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.","author":"Theodore Roosevelt","tags":["civic-duty","dissent","patriotism","truth-telling"],"id":194758,"author_id":"Theodore+Roosevelt"},{"text":"Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable,' said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, 'Emerson.'Lake and Palmer?'Ralph and Waldo.","author":"Louise Penny","tags":["civic-duty","funny","misattributed","neighborliness","ralph-waldo-emerson","snow"],"id":261076,"author_id":"Louise+Penny"},{"text":"Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the lives of those who inhabit one’s beloved extended community.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["2016-presidential-race","accountability","beloved-community","civic-duty","civic-responsibility","civic-virtue","civil-disobedience","communities","democracy","democratic-process","discourse-on-a-better-world","discourse-on-democracy","discourse-on-freedom","editorials-on-democracy","emigrants","gun-laws","gun-violence","human-rights","immigration","leadership","leadership-characteristics","leadership-theory","national-history-day","peace","peace-on-earth","police-culture","police-reform","political-art","political-chaos","political-commentary","political-ethics","political-philosophy","political-poets","political-posters","political-rights","political-theory","postered-poetics-by-aberjhani","practicing-democracy","presidential-election","right-to-vote","sustainable-living","teaching-democracy","voting"],"id":278928,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["2016-presidential-election","civic-duty","cognitive-awareness","conscious-awareness","conscious-mind","consciousness","crowd-sourcing","democracy","democracy-in-action","democratic-societies","dialogue","diversity","donald-trump","engaement","free-speech","freedom","gun-legislation","gun-safety","hillary-clinton","human-rights","love-for-humanity","maintaining-faith","making-a-difference","mindfulness","national-history-day","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","participation","police-culture","police-reform","police-shootings","political-debate","political-dialogues","political-discourse","political-divisions","political-philosophy","postered-poetics-by-aberjhani","racial-violence","social-philosophy","sustainable-humanity","unity","voters","voters-and-voting","voting","waging-peace"],"id":301681,"author_id":"Aberjhani"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}