Sentences with phrase «convince fellow citizens»

I said in my conference speech last September that «future» is the most important word in politics and we did not convince our fellow citizens that we were the party of the future.»

That's because, for one thing, abortion and marriage are issues to be resolved by the people acting through legislatures, and Catholic Americans, as citizens, are perfectly free to convince their fellow citizens of the truth of their view of who we are as free and relational beings.

Finally, a heavy reliance on courts can undermine energy to protect rights through the political process and to convince fellow citizens of the Importance of those rights.

We sought to convince our fellow citizens of some simple truths.

at convincing their fellow citizens» than we were.