Democracy is not a spectator sport, it’s a participatory event. If we don’t participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.
Event
I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.
This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
There isn’t a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.
It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You’re just not there.
In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.