Craig Kielburger Quotes

The idea of community and helping others has always been a part of who I am. Growing up, my parents always made sure that my siblings and I were doing our part to serve our local community.

Every child should be taught to be a caring adult and be given an opportunity to serve their communities.

I feel that public service is so important and giving back, being a role model and helping people in need is something that I would love to do.

I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.

The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.

I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.

We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.

My goal as a citizen is to do what I can to help the causes that I personally believe in.

The great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

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.

JROTC students make a commitment to serve their communities at an early age, and they learn the discipline and habits to be future leaders.

As a human being, when I see things going on in my community, I feel compelled to do something, to say something.

I'm all for doing positive. I've worked in the community. My wife, she's spending her life basically giving back to the community. That's something that we take pretty seriously, man.

Service learning connects classroom studies to real-world issues, with hands-on activities and problem solving. Youth can study biology and ecology by testing the water in their own community; or learn about statistics, calculating the food supply and usage at the local food bank.

We must look for leaders who have exhibited a lifetime of service to their communities and have proven that their intention is to help people.

I've always been an activist, so my participation in community outreach and helping is just a natural extension of that.

Service that benefits the community and those in need is an act that betters us all.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

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

Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

The idea of service leads to community.

I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

The gratification of helping others is a very American tradition and a Judeo-Christian tradition. Now it is great to see young people creating funds and giving back in all sorts of productive ways. It's a terrifically satisfying thing.

Doing good for the community is something that should be a part of who you are. The more you get, the more you should give back.

All I know is, I think I would like to continue to do public service.