Quotes About Participation

I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.

I like to be at a party and be a quiet observer, be in conversation. I wouldn't say I was a class clown growing up, but I would definitely sit back in class and take snipes at the teacher.

Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.

Football is probably the most democratic human activity. It belongs to everyone... to poor and rich, illiterate and educated, to all races, cultures, and nations.

People have different ideas on how to increase female racing driver participation. My belief is that men and women should compete together.

When I went to school, it was radical just to be involved in anything.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

You know in democracy you can protest peacefully and I'm sure you know it will have at least some kind of impact. You need to raise your voice. If you can't do much, you know, but at least raise you voice. Raising your voice is something you need to do.

Raising your hand when you're not sure you have the right answer helps you take risks with your ideas and put yourself out there.

You can watch Chanel fashion shows and watch the news. Fortunately you don't have to choose. I always vote, I go to rallies, but I also go to fashion shows.

It is important to show up. Showing up at marches and rallies and town halls and protests.

I was pulled out of school for every moratorium day and every rally for a left-wing candidate... from Ed Koch in his heyday to Eugene McCarthy. That's the culture that I came from.

People can't go into the street endlessly. My friends get asked why aren't they going to the next protest? They answer, 'Because we're tired of being thousands. I'm ready to become the 100,000th person at a rally, but I don't want to be the 10,000th. Because it's pointless.'

I always had this dream to act: so much so, even as a child, I used to take part in Ram Leelas.

I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.

If I want to get my ideas out, I have to be involved in the mechanism that the world is ran by.

The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.

Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.

I have always believed that genuine democracy is fairness.

I'm George Takei, and I'm straight... up asking you to vote.

I don't need to be someone famous or George Clooney. I don't need to be any of these people to get involved in my community or reach out to one nationally.

Women are very comfortable giving to charities or things they believe in, but not as much political givers.

To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up.

I am really glad to be a part of Srijit Mukherji's 'Nirbaak.'