Ann Althouse, a colleague of my late father, is a wonderful blogger and photographer. She captured a quote from Teddy Roosevelt that I find moving and inspirational. But then I find many of Teddy Roosevelt's speeches inspirational--particularly, his speech on the Duties of American Citizenship.
How often do we think of our duties as citizens? When we pay taxes we are fulfilling our duties as citizens. When we vote we are fulfilling our duties as citizens. When we criticize our government, we are fulfilling our duties as citizens.
How else do we, as individuals, interact with the state?
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a few years back I went to the womans march in Washington, AND brought my " karma daughter" (my best friends college aged daughter) because I had heard there were "no young people" left in the movement.
When we got there, I realized that I had done more than that, I had done my duty as a citizen, which is to instill in at least one one young person the importance of protesting when one is in disagree ment with our government. It was very gratifying to see the strong positive effect that it had on her.
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