Wole Soyinka Quotes

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.

I don't think any country is perfect. It's our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don't like. I think that's part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

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

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

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.

I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.

As a human being, when I see things going on in my community, I feel compelled to do something, to say something.

I've become more of a citizen and more of an activist.

I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.

Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.

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

My goal as a citizen is to do what I can to help the causes that I personally believe in.

'Unlikely Brothers' talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference.

We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Women are not only justified, but exhibit the most exalted virtue, when they do depart from the domestic circle, and enter upon the concerns of their country, of humanity and of their God.

I just consider it a part of good citizenship.