„Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.“

— Gloria Steinem

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„I’ve learned from these events that self-esteem plays as much a part in the destiny of nations as it does in the lives of individuals; that self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated; that citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform their countries; in short, that self-esteem is the basis of any real democracy.“
— Gloria Steinem
„The good citizen must be a good citizen of his own country first before he can with advantage be a citizen of the world at large.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„To have given each one of the million Negro free families a forty-acre freehold would have made a basis of real democracy in the United States that might easily have transformed the modern world.“
— W.E.B. Du Bois
„Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.“
— Winston S. Churchill
„Democracy will win -- because a government’s legitimacy can only come from citizens; because in this age of information and empowerment, people want more control over their lives, not less; and because, more than any other form of government ever devised, only democracy, rooted in the sanctity of the individual, can deliver real progress.“
— Barack Obama
„So civil society is the conscience of our countries. It’s the catalyst of change. It’s why strong nations don’t fear active citizens. Strong nations embrace and support and empower active citizens.“
— Barack Obama
„We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of their country.“
— Margaret Mead
„Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.“
— Albert Einstein