I need a quote that illustrates the importance of civic engagement to democracy.?
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Such as this? \n\n\n"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom…must undergo the fatigue of supporting it." \n- Paine, Thomas  (1737-1809)
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democracy is a farce. \n\n\ngo castro.
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A sledge-hammer to impose democracy who do not agree......\nwith the will of big FIVEs.
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This is a very timely article describing the efforts to protect our rights to vote using force and legal means if necessary.\n\nThis makes a few connections for me:\n\nThe election of a democratic government in Iraq:\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/30/iraq.main/\n\nThe efforts and challenges of civil rights and elections:\nhttp://www.civilrights.org/issues/voting/details.cfm?id=34487\n\n\nThe elections during the civil rights movement in the United States:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Summer\n\nThere are so many examples of the struggle for democracy around the world and in our own country.  It seems to be a never-ending struggle.\n\nj
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I really like the Public Citizen website and have used it for years:\nhttp://action.citizen.org/scorecard/
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Please visit these web pages :\nhttp://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience \nhttp://www.eserver.org/thoreau/civil.html \nhttp://www.actupny.org/documents/CDdocuments/CDindex.html\nhttp://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/civ-dis.html\nYou'll get the entire picture, plus the examples you seek.
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Very good quotes,  If you think those are scary try reading the Declearation of independence.  \n"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government"\n\nWhat does you question have to do with Bush suporters?
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech might give you ideas.\n\nhttp://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/Ihaveadream.htm\n\nor you can go to this site and search hundreds of famous speeches and see if you can get some ideas\n\nwww.americanrhetoric.com\n\n\nAlso, you can get quotes about never giving up, or perserverance and persistance at these links. \n\nhttp://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/perseverance/\nhttp://www.quotegarden.com/perseverance.html\n\n\nGood luck.
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download democracy player or go to youtube for starters. they are free!
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uh...democracy's side
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In the future...\n\nthe strong will define what democracy is.
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"The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is for Good Men to do Nothing." \n-Edmund Burke
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I recently compiled this list for a friend who has to give a graduation speech next month. Here are a few of my favorites. Good luck!\n\nYou must be the change you wish to see in the world. \n- Gandhi\n\nA person starts to live when he can live outside of himself.\n- Einstein\n\nMake your work in keeping with your purpose.\n- Da Vinci\n\nWhen you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.\n- Eleanor Roosevelt\n\nMay you live all the days of your life.\n- Jonathan Swift\n\nWe are what we repeatedly do.\n- Aristotle\n\nNo matter where you go, there you are.\n- Buckaroo Banzai
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too many people want to be in charge, old saying "too many cheifs not enough indians" democracy is a system for the people and by the people. if the common person does not stand up for it it will falter.
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"Money, Power, and Corruption"\n\nThe moral would be: "Never let a maniac take charge of your country"
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"Civility" or "Human Citizenship"  - (Dorky names, but I'll explain the concept)\n\nIf everyone concentrated on what it takes to be civil with one another, instead of forcing an abstract belief on one another, then the world would be a better place.\n\nThe tenants would include the improvement and advancement of personal ethics, community soveriegnty, environmental ethics, essential human rights, and sexual responsibility.  I'd like to throw in an "anti-cell phone while driving" agenda, but that's just a selfish wish.   It would not include any threats or promises of an afterlife, nor any divinely inspired text.  These seem to be distractions to what is really important, which is the growth and strength of personal ethics based on what's good for the community (both local and the world).
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I'd start with a compelling quote from the Declaration of Independence.  I'd describe the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.  You might want to include some statistics from the Census Bureau and maybe figure out how many people living in the US are citizens.  The links below may get you started.\n-MM