Quotes About Participation

I had seen 'Pillowman' in London and loved it. Being part of something that I, as an audience member, would like to be part of was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had.

Being on a board is not just about showing up for the meetings. A board member needs to materially contribute to the success of the business.

Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.

I've been hearing from people saying they see me more than they do their city council member.

You can be a responsible member of the community besides enriching from it.

Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves.

We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do.

The government must give men and women without power a real say over what happens to them, and the means of engaging in a participative, invigorated and living democracy.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu.

Genuine democracy is frequently messy, not stage-managed.

Democracy is messy.

Yes, I always say that we're a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to sing. So I always call our drummer up. Even the drummer has to take a turn on the microphone.

I was my high school football team's captain, not because I was the guy who scored the most touchdowns, but the guy who was in the midst of every play.

The 3,000th episode is a great milestone for 'Hollyoaks,' so it was just really nice and a big honour to play a part in it.

The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

I'm very much in a mindset that I take myself out of anything that I'm not involved in.

I've spent my entire adult life encouraging minority communities to get involved in mainstream society, civic society.

For Obama, there was just a lot of enthusiasm in the minority communities to get out and vote. Everybody felt like their vote mattered.

Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.

Thomas Paine said, "The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery."1

active learning (writing, reading aloud, talking with a teacher or student about the topic at hand).

Worse still, throughout the program's first decade, two-thirds of participants never even finished. Let that sink in: two-thirds did not even bother to complete a free job-training program—financed by hard-working Americans.

I want to work out an alternative to this lazy, lousy 'democratic' and demagogic term 'Participation'. I am not for 'Participative-art', it's so stupid because every old painting makes you more 'participating' than today's 'Participative-art', because first of all real participation is the participation of thinking! Participation is only another word for 'Consumption'!