Steve Inskeep Quotes

Back when people couldn't read, other people would take newspapers and turn them into theater so that people would know what was going on in the world. That is a powerful thing.

Yahoo! is dedicated to promoting community awareness through outreach, education and information access.

Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.

I try to educate the public and let them make the decisions for themselves.

Businesses that distribute information and news are in the business of training and teaching people.

So many people are not aware that NPR writes things, 'posts' things. But we are spreading the word.

Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can't expect much praise from scientists. My goal both as a singer and an instructor is to educate through provocation and entertainment.

If you don't get out among the people, how are you going to know what they need to hear about?

I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

The tactics we were able to use in the 1960s, 1970s - let's have a campaign, mobilize everybody and, therefore, social pressure - stop littering, or stop spitting, or be courteous to one another: I am not sure that kind of approach will work anymore.

You can spread awareness through entertainment.

The people need to know about guys like John Moraga.

What we need more than anything else is an informed populace. I believe people want to be informed.

We're constantly looking for ways to reach people in Maine to talk to them, reassure them and share resources and ideas.

When something isn't constantly drummed-up by the media, [people] just don't know about it.

Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community?

The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization. Present arrangements must be disorganized if they are to be displace by new patterns.... All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new.

We raise awareness and drop information about access and laws into pop culture spaces through making videos and through live events. That's like fifty percent of what we do.

I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware.

A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours.

The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public.

What I wanted to do was give society the information it needed to decide if it wanted to change the system.

Democracy depends on citizens being informed, and since our media, especially television (which is the most important source of news for most Americans) reports mostly what the people in power do, and repeats what the people in power say, the public is badly informed, and it means we cannot really say we have a functioning democracy.

You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.