147 Quotes About Citizenship

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

Leadership, Boal concluded, is the art of facilitating imaginative interventions by the greatest possible number...

Reject anything advice, which does not lead to your personal progress.

It is particularly important to note that, in a democracy, education has never been concerned only with supplying the needs of the economy or ensuring effective socialisation; it also has strong traditions of preparing for citizenship, extending possibilities for learning and promoting social progress.

My nation is my family, and a family is the basis of my inner being, the solid ground on which I stand. If a family breaks from the inside, it leads to the complete destruction. I have a mission… Whenever my nation, my family, needs me, I shall be there.

Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.

We are grateful to people who occasionally help out, but we elevate them to a higher moral plane when they consistently do so, when we can count on them to show up rain or shine, not just when the boss is looking or free coffee is being served ... Along these lines, we value people who are loyal to their groups, who do not jump ship at the first rough weather.

Knee-jerk disobedience and anticonformity are no more praiseworthy than the most mindless loyalty to a group.

In his book The Soul of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois writes about always feeling "his twoness-- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; to warring ideals in one dark body.