A Quote by Ralph Nader

Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated.

Ralph Nader

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Ralph Nader
American - Lawyer
Born: February 27, 1934

Going through intense change with an ignorant and apathetic citizenry, driven by a corporate agenda, is a really, really scary proposition. But going into it with an educated and empowered citizenry that feels it can determine the course of its society and can hold its corporations and governments accountable has a lot of power and potential to it. To me, that's what makes activism so important.

Tim DeChristopher

Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.

John Gray

Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government.

Ryan Shapiro

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

David Brin

Democracy can't function without an informed citizenry.

Ryan Shapiro

An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.

Thomas Jefferson

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

Thomas Jefferson

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

Albert Einstein

Democracy requires an informed citizenry able to question its government.

Richard N. Haass

An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.

Thomas Jefferson

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

David Mamet

In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.

Alan Hirsch

The natural proclivity of democratic governments is to pursue public policies which concentrate benefits on the well-organized and well-informed, and disperse the costs on the unorganized and ill-informed.