All Quotes By Tag: Civic-responsibility
“It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.”
“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn’t just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it’s an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.”[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]”