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Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved, and governments repudiate them, more often than not with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders.

If, by demanding revolutionary change, I run the risk of accomplishing nothing on behalf of the public, then I'm not sure that's a responsible course of action.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

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

I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

It is a duty of everyone to cooperate and help each other.

The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.