Severn Cullis-Suzuki Quotes

It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.

I want society to feel they are part of a process of change.

We have always a roll to play in any community, and we have to do it - it's being part of a society.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

My interest in community is what fuels my work as a writer, more than just wanting to write or just wanting to have a TV show.

It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.

Everybody is supposed to be a part of their own community.

The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.

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

You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can't succeed without your help.

I want to help find opportunities for people to become active participants in their communities.

A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways.

We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.

The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.

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.

In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.

As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.

A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and not just to him or herself.

I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

We need to get back to the concept of taking the community with us.

Mobilize population and all partners—the public sector and the private sector. Development is everybody’s business.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Ours was a never a 'religious' religious home because my parents thought of religion as something you do: it's the way you engage in the local community. That has meant a lot to me.

A community belongs to those who take ownership of it.