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However, the U.S. flag does represent a capacity for moral purging and progress. For example, the civil rights movement broadened our nation's stunted conception of citizenship, thus reducing the extent to which the stars and stripes symbolizes white supremacy. Claiming that the Confederate flag also exemplifies a tradition of inclusion and exemplary change is foolish. The Confederacy was founded on principles of black subjugation, and the Southern whites who restored its flag to prominence during the '50s used this flag to demonstrate their desire to continue the domination of black citizens. When has the white South made formal moral...
...anyone who knows me could tell you, I'm a bit fanatical about citizenship duties. I vote (absentee, no less) in every election I can: city council, school board, school bonds, sewer boards; it doesn't matter...
Voting is not merely a method of choosing our country's next leaders. Casting a ballot helps to build good citizenship. It helps to make Americans more aware of current political issues, and educates them in the principles of self-government. Harvard students should feel a special responsibility to vote. Our generation has too often been accused of being mired in angst and nihilism...
...Harvard National Scholarships were created as part of this process.... Conant--like Eliot--stresses the clear linkage between certain values (such as tolerance) fostered in a residential college, and the civic virtues essential to citizenship and leadership in a democracy...
Because there are so many venerable forms of relationship with mystery, our collaborative citizenship on this planet is moving asymptotically toward a state of being remarkably resembling an interfaith marriage...