Quotes About Participation

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Voting is the best revenge. 2012

elections alone don't produce a functioning democracy;

That's why people become involved in organizing—because they think they'll get something out of it.

We were not supposed to know anything about our own bodies or to participate in decision-making about our own care.

Political power, too, is concentrated within the top 20 percent, since its members are far more likely than the poor—or even the middle class—to discern the all-too-tiny distinctions between candidates that can make it seem worthwhile to contribute, participate, and vote.

Oh, Rachel, Rachel, Leah said. Let me give you a teeny little lesson in political science. Democracy and dictatorship are political systems; they have to do with who participates in the leadership. Socialism and capitalism are economic systems. It has to do with who owns the wealth of the nations, and who gets to eat. Can you grasp that?

You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist history rather than a spectator Father Fernando Cardenal

You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist of history rather than a spectator.

You can resign from the Woman's Club, but the world is all, you can't just stop attending.

know how that sounds. But you get twenty people in a big circle talking and chugging, and the effect is pretty good.

The basis of the practice is to directly participate in each moment as it occurs with as much awareness and understanding as possible.

By doing rather than merely studying, we create a culture. Newcomers and the young feed on that culture. They watch. They do. They, too, are changed. Our culture expands. You Americans create a system of thought. The most you ask is that people contemplate new ideas. You might ask them to give or to sometimes attend meetings, but no contagious culture is created.

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.

Se puede ser miembro activo de una Iglesia, pero inactivo en la práctica de su evangelio.

You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

Without involvement, there is no commitment.

As I told the manager of the first hotel I visited, I know a lot of companies with impressive mission statements. But there is a real difference, all the difference in the world, in the effectiveness of a mission statement created by everyone involved in the organization and one written by a few top executives behind a mahogany wall.

What we are engaged in creating is the opportunity for people to participate in the transformation of people's lives and of life itself. This context of transformation is a context of freedom and opportunity, of empowerment and human joy, of contribution and of participation. Participation in this transformation is, for me, the fullest expression of being. ~ Werner Erhard

How many people have never raised their hand before?

If you want your boomerang to come back, first you've got to throw it.

Though the Nones supported Clinton over Trump by a ratio of three to one, they stayed home on November 8, 2016, while the Evangelicals lined up to vote.

Active, shmactive!