Quotes About Participation

We need women to better reflect the social fabric of our society.

We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.

There are always groups on campus that are doing amazing things. I know when I was in college, I was a student at the University of Arizona, working on my bachelor's in history, and I got involved with a number of different groups that were connected to different social justice issues that I cared about.

A lot of brands just push messages out on social media, but that's not what social is about. Social is about engaging. It's about a conversation. It's about listening and then responding. It's an ongoing conversation with our fan base.

I think social media has reinvigorated people's enthusiasm to be active and to engage.

There is a growing awareness among brands that in order to participate in conversations that are taking place across social networks, they must join these discussions on the basis of something that is meaningful to their customers.

To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country.

Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.

The Electoral College needs to go, because it's made our society less and less democratic.

Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too.

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.

We need democracy - but right now democracy needs us! It needs self-assured citizens who have confidence and drive, common sense and decency, and who show solidarity with others.

I realized that there are two choices in life: one can be part of the solution or one can complain about the things they don't like.

When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.

We are not exercising our democratic rights properly. We need to stop looking for solutions in others.

Solutions and ideas should come from the bottom up, generated by local communities and not mandated from Washington.

It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come together to solve it in a way where everyone has an equal say.

You don't lose weight by watching someone else exercise. You don't learn by watching someone else solve problems. It became clear to me that the only way to do online learning effectively is to have students solve problems.

China's environmental conundrums will not be solved by changes within government alone. New mechanisms are needed to allow the communities which may be affected by a given plan, and citizens concerned about the environment, to join in.

While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.