Quotes About Participation

Protest is good; involvement is better; doing both is the best.

The rise of civic society is not a negation of politics, but marks an opportunity for the involvement of the people.

It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch... and then we'd beat them up as well.

Get involved in your neighborhood. That's how I got really, really committed to the immigrant rights movement.

My experience as a county commissioner has taught me that the best ideas often come from our neighbors, church groups, and community.

What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.

In war you're either a collaborator or you're a resistor. I mean you don't get to be neutral.

We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.

I used to love those movies, back in the day, like 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Friday the 13th,' 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'The Shining.' I really liked those kind of movies, and I wanted to be a part of one of those kinds of movies.

It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in.

No experience exists unless it's a shared one.

As players we don't want to be sitting on the touchline or watching the games in the directors' box. That is no fun.

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.

When I was very young, I took no interest in party politics. My line of interest was how can you be part of an influence to the society that you live in.

never in peaceful times stand idle..

Ranked seventeenth in the table of world military strengths in 1939, the United States was now primus inter pares, with an all-American military, economic, and political agenda, based on the clear goals of the four freedoms, that the President was determined to fulfill come hell or high water — with or without Soviet participation.

Within the reigning social order, the general public must remain an object of manipulation, not a participant in thought, debate, and decision.

Well, I think that what used to be called, centuries ago, wage slavery is intolerable. And I don't think people ought to be forced to rent themselves in order to survive. I think that the economic institutions ought to be run democratically, by their participants, by the communities in which they exist, and so on; and I think basically through various kinds of free association.

People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action. They might actually be participants if many people with limited resources could get together to enter the political arena. That's really threatening.

Neoliberalism works best when there is formal electoral democracy, but when the population is diverted from the information, access, and public forums necessary for meaningful participation in decision making.

In my opinion the immediate goal of even committed anarchists should be to defend some state institutions, while helping to pry them open to more meaningful public participation, and ultimately to dismantle them in a much more free society.

As a longtime journalist, this quote from the delicious Nora Ephron made me smile in recognition of its truth: Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at the orgy...everyone else is having a marvelous time, laughing merrily, eating, drinking, having sex in the back room, and I am standing on the side taking notes.

painting, in music, in literature or theater? If so, did that make the rest of the world nothing more than the audience? Passive observers whose only contribution was applause or criticism?

American football] fanbase resemble that of contemporary boxing: rich people watching poor people play a game they would never play themselves.