How to be a citizen

Kevin Danaher:

Powerlessness corrupts. . . . We have way more power than we realize. In a democracy, the highest position of authority is not president or supreme court justice. It is citizen. We, the people, hold sovereignty, which means ultimate political authority - but we have been taught to not know this. They have convinced us that we are powerless. We are not. If we think we are, then we are. And the key to this is, what my t-shirt says: organize. All us little mosquitoes need to start biting the big Arnold Schwarzenegger, and he'll leave the forest after getting bitten enough times. It's a Lilliputian strategy. But that is what democracy is all about.

Source: Heard on New Dimensions, Program 2881