Quotes About Participation

I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.

God calls women to run—to trust him and invest ourselves in the race he has marked out—to participate, contribute and fight for what is right.

God's idea of a partnership places enormous responsibility on his image bearers and also means he wants us to participate in what he is doing here on earth and intends for us to do so, not as isolated individuals, but together.

God's vision for us doesn't just reassure us that we matter and that our lives do count for something. God's vision compels us to look beyond ourselves, to ponder a picture of how things were meant to be that leaves us aching for his will to be done on earth as it is in heaven, and to look for ways to participate in moving the world toward that goal. One of the biggest issues confronting us today is the battle cry of Amy Carmichael and the burning challenge of Half the Sky.

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

Cooperation implies equality of the participants in the particular task at hand. On the contrary, however, the usual way now is for the whites to work out their plans behind closed doors, have them approved by a few Negroes serving nominally on a board, and then employ a white or mixed staff to carry out their program.

She had been given the opportunity to participate in civilization, and she muffed it.

Brandeis can be taken to have offered a conception of the social role of the idealized citizen. For such a citizen, active engagement in politics, at least some of the time, is a responsibility, not just an entitlement. If citizens are "inert," freedom itself is at risk. If

We love your adherence to democratic principles and to the democratic process.

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn, and dead, participates - men are no more than 'bits of paper blown on the cold wind . . .

He had long ago given up trying even to understand the unsolvable mathematics of human relationships, let alone to participate.

A good citizen must follow the movement of public affairs, so as to cast his vote intelligently, and know whether the party in power deserved his vote.

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

As an anonymous participant in financial markets, I never had to weigh the social consequences of my actions…. I felt justified in ignoring them on the grounds that I was playing by the rules.

Our Democracy is a Participatory Democracy. Existentially it's dependent on people who cherish the shinning, highest ideals of our Democracy and actively engage in the political process.

adds a strong imperative to act upon what has happened, a continuing invitation in which the one who is healed is meant to participate. Jesus instructs the healed one to go forth with some special intent, made possible by the healing.

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

The most important office is that of private citizen.

There is no such thing as vicarious experience.

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.