Doug Baldwin Quotes

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

In the U.K., a lot of writers won't show up to support activist issues because they figure they're already repairing the world. I don't want to be one of those people.

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.

A decent society is not based on rights. It is based on duty. Our duty to one another. To all should be given opportunity; from all responsibility demanded.

Music must awaken people to do their duty as citizens and act.

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.

There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.

You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.

I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to take action.

It's hard for me to imagine a philosopher disconnected from the world, indifferent to the cares of his country, unmoved by poverty, unemployment: I am a committed citizen.

My life has told me that I do owe another human being. I owe him part of my life. That's why I'm in politics.

If you see something that you feel is wrong in society, why not help out?

We've found that service learning builds life skills, leadership and a sense of global citizenship that makes helping a lifelong habit.

You can complain about problems, and you can suffer from the ramifications of issues that are social in nature and impact you, but the best thing you can do is get off your couch, get out of your home and go do something about it.

We all have a social responsibility and have to be mindful of what we do and say.

I was very engaged in my communities throughout college, but I never thought of it as political.

We all have some basic obligation to one another.

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.

Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.