Need some inspiration? We are always looking for help to stay civically motivated.

Here are some quotes we love, because they:

  • boost our spirits
  • imagine the courage and strength of great thinkers, and
  • let us reflect on what we hope to accomplish in our civic and political lives!

We also wonder: what quotes inspire *you*? Drop us a note at hello@civicjuice.com or tweet us @civicjuice to let us know, and we might just add it to this growing list!

 

The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Hannah Arendt

   

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

   

My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Abraham Lincoln

   

[N]o republic can maintain itself in strength [without] general education, to enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom.

Thomas Jefferson

   

Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.

O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.

We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!

Langston Hughes

   

It would have been more comfortable to remain silent. It took no initiative to inform anyone — I took no initiative to inform anyone. … I felt that I had to tell the truth. I could not keep silent.

Anita Hill

   

This land is your land, this land is my land.

Woody Guthrie

   

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

Martha Gellhorn

   

[W]henever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness], 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.

Declaration of Independence

   

Artificial distinctions between persons must be wiped out of the law. Legal discrimination … is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology. It is time to sweep away these relics of the past and set further generations free of them.

Shirley Chisholm

   

[W]e are assembled to protest against a form of government existing without the consent of the governed – to declare our right to be free as man is free.

The right is ours. Have it, we must. Use it, we will. The pens, the tongues, the fortunes, the indomitable wills of many women are already pledged to secure this right.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

   

Let every man make known what kind of government would command respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

Henry David Thoreau

   

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