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You are asked to write 1000 words on ONE of the quotations.
Please ensure that you reference your work and provide a bibliography
1. ‘There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force’.
Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Have a Dream” Speech Aug. 28, 1963
2. ‘I know of no safe repository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education’.
Thomas Jefferson, In a letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787.
3. ‘If higher education doesn’t start giving citizenship and democracy much greater priority, then who will? Corporate business? The news media? The church? Politics? How can we ever expect the democratic dream to become more of a waking reality unless education changes its priorities? Some of my academic colleagues might respond that a ‘traditional liberal education’ is the best thing we can do to prepare young people for the responsibilities of citizenship. While there may be some truth in that argument, the uncomfortable reality is that whatever we are currently doing – call it liberal learning if you like – simply isn’t getting the job done. Most of our citizenry – and that includes most of our college-educated citizenry – seem neither to understand what democracy is all about nor to accept their individual responsibilities to make it work’.
Alexander W. Astin (2002) ‘Higher Education and the Cultivation of Citizenship’
4. ‘Nature has implanted in the human race so great a need of virtue and so great a desire to defend the common safety that the strength thereof has conquered all the allurements of pleasure and ease.
But it is not enough to possess virtue … the existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use: the noblest use is the government of the State’.
Cicero, De Re Publica, 54-51 BCE
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