Introduction Essay: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship | Bill of Rights Institute
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Introduction Essay: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship | Bill of Rights Institute
Among the oldest and still most fundamental questions are: what is justice? What are the goals of a decent society? How should a citizen be educated? Why should I obey the law, and what are the limits, if any, to my obligation? What constitutes the ground of human dignity? Is it freedom? Is it virtue? Is it love, is it friendship?
Dan Holenstein • Notesnook
We cannot claim a right to life without taking responsibility for the lives that have already been created. And we cannot claim a right to peace without taking responsibility for cultivating peace within ourselves and in our relationships with others, even those that we oppose.
Sherri Mitchell • Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
Citizenship is human nature: an intrinsic inclination, always bubbling, often suppressed, never wholly conquered, and now at a moment of huge opportunity.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Being a Citizen is a way of life, almost more a verb than a noun. A practice.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Fundamentally, Citizens are humans who want to shape the world around us for the better, and who claim and where necessary demand the right and the means to do so. To be a Citizen is to care, to take responsibility, to acknowledge one’s inherent power. To be a Citizen is to cultivate meaningful connection to a web of relationships and institutions.
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