Quotes About Involvement

My husband is in politics and my kids are already a campaign organ for him and I really love being their mother.

I'm very interested in film, but any more involvement would happen organically. I'm not really seeking anything out, just looking at projects that come up that interest me.

I want to get involved in causes I believe in, and I know so many others that want to also get involved, but it's hard to know how. Often, it's through big organisations, and you don't know exactly where your money is going or what effect you are having.

Mexico established a unique three-part governing system shared by the government, the information commission and civil society organisations.

Like many older D.C. organizations, Common Cause has had to come a long way both in its use of the Internet and its understanding of the great value of engaging people in a broader online dialogue.

I've tried to be active in civic organizations as well as the Church.

If we members of the Jewish community don't support the Jewish organizations, nobody else will.

Even throughout college and post-college, I've always been incredibly hyperactive. Even at Boston College, I was involved in so many different organizations and initiatives.

In 1970, as a 26 year-old, I joined in the effort in my home state of Massachusetts to organize for Earth Day. But what made the event so successful was that I was only one of about 20 million Americans of all ages and backgrounds who got involved.

We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies.

In 1981, I was a community organizer.

A lot of organizers are trying to figure out how do we create entrances for people so they can be involved in the work in a way that makes them feel is aligned to the things they're interested in and not the things the organizer is interested in?

When I think of an activist, I think of a community organizer who is working every day and directly with community members and making it a job to take care of and speak up for a community in some way.

Organizing has to be a 12-month endeavor.

My father joined the NAACP when he was 12, in the '50s. He was part of the organizing efforts that led to some of the first sit-ins in North Carolina.

My father played music, so I was always around music, even from the time I was born. My father actually was the one that originally got me into music.

When I came to the Orlando Magic and saw work that they did in the community, I wanted to ripple off that and make a difference too.

I'm a big fan of 'Orphan Black,' and to be one of the original cast members is something that will always be dear to me.

To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.

Everyone without extraordinary research skills ought to be able to know what is happening inside the government, how it operates, where their tax dollars are going. Then they can make better decisions in the electoral process.

Every minister knows it's harder to get the guys to church than the women. We ought to be asking why this is.

I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn't count. I'm trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved.

My husband and I are loyal to our community and very approachable, even though we're kind of mainstream.