Lift Every Voice Books Overview

Lift Every Voice begins with emphasizing the core democratic values, skills, and knowledge that young people and adults need to lift their voices and to create a more compassionate, just, and free country and world. In Lift Every Voice, these Democratic Competencies are organized into five books: Book 1: Democratic Values, Book 2: Social and Emotional Skills, Book 3: Democratic Skills and Practice, Book 4: Social and Ecological Awareness, and Book 5: Democratic Knowledge.

Democratic Values, Skills, and Knowledge

"...that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the
earth."
—Gettysburg Address

Lift Every Voice

1. Democratic Values: Guide and Unite Our Country

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
—Emma Lazarus

Democratic Values, Skills, and Knowledge

2. Social and Emotional Skills: Stand in Other People's Shoes, Resolve Conflicts Non-Violently

" We will be known forever by the tracks we leave In other people's lives, our kindnesses and generosity. Take the time to walk a mile in his moccasins."
—Mary T. Lathrap

Democratic Values, Skills, and Knowledge

3. Democratic Skills and Practices: Advocate, Discuss, Debate, Negotiate

"Black Lives Matter was created as... a call to action for those who want to ...build a world where black lives do,
in fact, matter."
—Alicia Garcia

Democratic Values, Skills, and Knowledge

4. Social and Ecological Awareness: Pursue Social Justice and Ecological Balance

"We stand now where two roads diverge . . . The other folk of the road...offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination
that assumes the preservation
of the earth." —Rachel Carson

Democratic Values, Skills, Knowledge

5. Democratic Knowledge: Understand Our Democratic Rights and Protect Them

"We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms...freedom of speech... freedom...to worship
...freedom from want . . . (and)
freedom from fear . . . anywhere
in the world." —Pres. Roosevelt

Democratic Values, Skills, and Knowledge

Democratic Values, Skills, and Knowledge: Five Books

An Overview of Democratic Values, Skills, and Knowledge

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For there is always light,
if only we're brave enough to see it
If only we're brave enough to be it
–Amanda Gorman