Civic Life Quotes

“Alexis de Tocqueville admired the laws that formally established America's democratic order, but he argued that voluntary organizations were the real source of the nation's robust civic life. John Dewey claimed that social connection is predicated on "the vitality and depth of close and direct intercourse and attachment." "Democracy begins at home," he famously wrote, "and its home is the neighborly community.”
― Eric Klinenberg, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

“Civility is the everyday ethic of honoring the dignity of others as we would wish our own to be honored—an active commitment to justice, respect, and mutual responsibility in shared civic life.”
― Diane Kalen-Sukra