Quotes About Participation

Computation is fundamentally a representational medium, but as we attempt to expand the ways in which we interact with computation, we need to pay attention to the duality of representation and participation.

The current human rights movement in Africa - with the possible exception of the women's rights movement and faith-based social justice initiatives - appears almost by design to exclude the participation of the people whose welfare it purports to advance.' - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible activity that is structuring the reality. We think that if we do not hustle, nothing will happen and we will pine away. But the reality is probably in motion and after a while we might take part in that motion. But one can't know.

God did not create us to be nobodies, but to be somebodies in communion with him through participation in Jesus' glorious story.

Men delude themselves into thinking that the events in which they participate are of particular significance to history, but they rarely are. One empire is the same as another.

Your life and destiny are determined to a large extent by your participation in the outcome.

He who participates in God participates in eternity.

Self-affirmation, for Tillich, is the paradox of "participation in something which transcends the self" (165).

Ordinary theism has made God a heavenly, completely perfect person who resides above the world and mankind. The protest of atheism against such a highest person is correct. There is no evidence for his existence, nor is he a matter of ultimate concern. God is not God without universal participation. "Personal God" is a confusing symbol.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

Education and democracy have the same goal: The fullest possible development of human capabilities

I'm learning to be a part of a team, even if the team doesn't always to what I want. - Amber Brown

Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone

Education either functions as an instrument that is used to facilitate the integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes "the practice of freedom," the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects which must be saved from a burning building; it is to lead them into the populist pitfall and transform them into masses which can be manipulated.

Thematic investigation is only justified to the extent that it returns to the people what truly belongs to them; to the extent that it represents, not an attempt to learn about the people, but to come to know with them the reality which challenges them.

Revolutionary leaders cannot think without the people, or for the people, but only with the people.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.