Quotes About Involvement

Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

We know a lot of ugly things happen in the world and we can't allow ourselves to get indignant about all of them. We have limited reserves of indignation. But when the events are so close, when they touch you personally, what must you do? It's one thing not being able to do anything – you know something isn't right, but you can't do anything about it – it's quite another when you have in your own hands the possibility of reacting in some way.

There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people.

No need to queue up; step forward and count yourself in.

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.

You are a guardian and protector of liberty. You may be the only thing that stands between freedom and slavery. And if you can, join those who are willing to take a stand in Washington, DC on 9-12. If not, stand together somewhere in your community on 9-12. Get involved. They're very well organized in their communities, and I didn't realize how many socialist communities there were.

Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least.

Voting isn't the most we can do, but the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one.

I recommend trying this kind of grassroots organizing for a week or a year, a month or a lifetime—working for whatever change you want to see in the world. Then one day you will be talking to a stranger who has no idea you played any part in the victory she or he is celebrating.

Democracy is just something you must do every day, like brushing you teeth.

All my years of campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To

Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still

politics are a part of daily life.

Voting isn't the most we can do, but it's the least.

I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity

It isn't really important to decide when you are very young just exactly what you want to become when you grow up. It is much more important to decide on the way you want to live. If you are going to be honest with yourself and honest with your friends, if you are going to get involved in causes which are good for others, not only for yourselves, then it seems to me that that is sufficient, and maybe what you will be is only a matter of chance.

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others… In this world so filled with problems, so constantly threatened by dark and evil challenges, you can and must rise above mediocrity, above indifference. You can become involved and speak with a strong voice for that which is right.

All of us are the products of the lives that touched upon our own lives

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Fathers who share their children's growing time cannot grow old, cannot grow paunchy and stodgy and stiff even if they wished to, and who wishes to? Let another wear the dignity of the pompous front but not a boy's father. He doesn't have to. He wears the aura of young life.

It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen.

UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

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