Howard Rheingold Quotes

My grandfather raised me believing in the power of youth to change the world.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

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

Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.

I think I will always have a connection to young people, to try to bring their voices to the polls, bring their voices wherever they can make a difference.

Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

We have achieved political democracy. Now we must make certain it reaches the minds and souls of our people.

Where the government is a government of the people, it is essential that the history be a history of the people. The history of a democracy ought not to be an Iliad.

Political involvement is more than a game.

Once a citizen feels he is not powerless, he can aspire for more change. ... First, the Web democratized commerce, and then it democratized media, and now it is democratizing democracy.

Hillary Clinton is the problem; she is not the solution to Donald Trump. We are the solution. We are the ones we've been waiting for. This is our moment. Together, we do have the power to create an America and a world that works for all of us.

Democracy, of course, requires strong demands from the public.

Democracy depends on well educated and engaged citizens.

Being nimble and ready to change our minds if need be is an attribute that is crucial to live and thrive in a society that is powered by science and technology, both as an individual and as an engaged citizen.

I'm a citizen in a democracy. To call me an activist would be redundant. It's not a spectator sport. If we all become non-participants, it no longer works.

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.

When people get this consciousness of the way things are supposed to be in America - that the locus of agency is in them, that they are supposed to be the ones setting the agenda - if people believe this, they get very energized. Yeah, it's annoying to have this extra burden of saving the country.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

I think that my peers deserve more than products to buy wrapped up in advertising. We need ideas to share and causes to believe in - opportunities to lead and teach.

We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the study of power, practical political power. And you must start that process at an age level when kids' brains are still open and malleable.