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Active citizen   /ˈæktɪv sˈɪtəzən/   Listen
Active citizen

noun
1.
A citizen who takes an active role in the community (as in crime prevention and neighborhood watch).





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"Active citizen" Quotes from Famous Books



... self-centred; I am much better employed, from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything. I know only one way in which I could have played a meritorious part as an active citizen—by becoming a schoolmaster in some little country town, and teaching half a dozen teachable boys to love study for its own sake. That I could have done, I daresay. Yet, no; for I must have had as a young man the same ...
— The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft • George Gissing


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