“Citizenship is not something that you can outsource! ...We've got to do the work ourselves, and you've got to know, and you've got to talk to people.”

David Cay Johnston, "It's Even Worse Than You Think" (Jan 27, 2018)

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Janette Rallison (1966) American writer

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“If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

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“If you see something that's wrong, you've got to do something about it.”

Henry Spira (1927–1998) American activist

Ethics Into Action: Henry Spira and The Animal Rights Movement by Peter Singer (1998).

“Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

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“Think of what's stored in an 80- or a 90-year-old mind. Just marvel at it. You've got to get out this information, this knowledge, because you've got something to pass on. There'll be nobody like you ever again. Make the most of every molecule you've got as long as you've got a second to go. That's your charge.”

Studs Terkel (1912–2008) American author, historian and broadcaster

David R. Brower, in an interview with Terkel, but much of it is sometimes misattributed to Terkel himself.
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“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”

Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress

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“You love someone, you've got to let something go.”

Mark Haddon book A Spot of Bother

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