Craig Kielburger Quotes

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

I had the opportunity at Duke to start doing things in the community, and it's something I continue to do even 20 years later.

Our calling is not just within the walls of the congregation, but we are part of the life and community in which our condition resides.

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

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

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

We all need to kind of preach to ourselves. I grew up in church, and I don't think I necessarily understood what it meant to be called into the culture and the community in the city that you're in or the town that you're in and live effectively and be informed and be gracious with people.

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I don't want a gamer to feel like they have to commit their whole life to changing the world.

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.

For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.

I certainly feel a strong call of public service.

Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.

I challenge a new generation of young Americans to a season of service.

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

We are really excited about being stewards to the community that is Minecraft.

Getting in the community, working with the kids, was a way that I felt like I could get out and make a change.

Civic participation over a lifetime, working in neighborhoods and communities and service of all kinds - military and civilian, full-time and part-time, national and international - will strengthen America's civic purpose.

Every one of us has the ability to raise awareness, volunteer, educate our friends and family, and give back to our communities.