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The power of the individual, market forces, and the private sector permeate our lives. With that power comes responsibility to address huge challenges. Climate change cannot be solved by governments alone. Xenophobia, hatred, and intolerance - more business leaders have to play a role in trying to be positive leaders, civic leaders.

~Daniel Lubetzky

Topics: Address Alone Business Business Leaders Cannot Challenges Change Civic Climate Climate Change Forces Governments Hatred Huge Individual Intolerance Leaders Lives Market More Our Our Lives Play Positive Power Private Private Sector Responsibility Role Sector Solved Trying Xenophobia

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Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live.

~David Binder

Topics: Better Bring Cities Civic Creativity Dialogue Diversity Festivals General Improve Increase Live Make Neighbors Offer Opportunities Our Places Pride Promote Psychological Short Well-Being

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I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism; and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space.

~David Blunkett

Topics: Believe Civic Commitment Defined Democracy Duty Ethnic Exclusive Grounds History Internationalism Liberty Openness Our Public Shared Space Through Tolerance Values I Believe

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I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'

~David Byrne

Topics: Before Call Civic Distance Doing Engagement Except Kept Kind Know Other People Politics Rarely Should Start Telling Thing Think Well You Yourself

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Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

~David Byrne

Topics: Attitudes Change Civic Creative Depending Live Social Think Where Yes I Think

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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.

~David Mccullough

Topics: Alive Art Being Civic Enlargement Experience History Just Literature Me Music Ought Our Part Pleasure Responsibility Source Way

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In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.

~Diane Paulus

Topics: Athens Audience Center Civic Classical Culture Different Elizabethan Engagement England Politics Religion Society Theater Things Those

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We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.

~Dolores Huerta

Topics: Being Civic Decisions Feminist Life Made Need Office Political Right Run Table Will Women

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The judiciary wields enormous power but is utterly mysterious to most Americans. People know more about 'American Idol' judges than Supreme Court judges. Done right, social media is a high-octane tool to boost civic awareness.

~Don Willett

Topics: About American American Idol Awareness Boost Civic Court Done Enormous Idol Judges Judiciary Know Media More Most Mysterious People Power Right Social Social Media Supreme Supreme Court Than Tool Utterly

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Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as 'community entrepreneurship.'

~Donald Bren

Topics: Among Civic Collaboration Community Concept Education Entities Entrepreneurship Future Involvement Like Local Nonprofit Private Public Public Education Refer Require Various Will

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