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"As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level."
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"The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations."
"In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars."
"We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions."
"So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players."
"The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations."
"Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest."
"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community."
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"If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?"
"A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail."
"The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy."
"Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives."
"Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities."
"What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists."
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