Jehane Noujaim Quotes

We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.

I hope we can use television somehow to begin to reengage people in this conversation of democracy.

I do believe with all my soul In the gret Press's freedom, To pint the people to the goal And in the traces lead ‘em.

The Internet has done a wonderful thing for us. But democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time.

No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

Coherently democratic authority carries the conviction that true discipline does not exist in the muteness of those who have been silenced but in the stirrings of those who have been challenged, in the doubt of those who have been prodded, and in the hopes of those who have been awakened.

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.

In order for critical pedagogy, dialogue, and thought to have real effects, they must advocate the message that all citizens, old and young, are equally entitled, if not equally empowered, to shape the society in which they live.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

As a young man, causes of one kind or another engaged me, and I thought the media is where you express yourself in that. I lived with the illusion, for quite a long time, that if you described something accurately, something would be done about it.

I believe in the power of media. I really do. It's my soapbox. And I do have an agenda, because I'm enraged by the limitations forced on people - by poverty, oppression, hatred, fear - and I'm saddened by the kind of loss we all experienced due to the contributions that people cannot make because of their circumstances.

I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do.

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

I want people to learn what democracy means.

I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very idealistic fellow who thought that he could use blogs, social networks and new media to help promote democracy, human rights and freedom of expression.

Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks.