Quotes About Participation

The purpose of activism and art, or at least of mine, is to make a world in which people are producers of meaning, not consumers....

The question, then, is not so much how to create the world as how to keep alive that moment of creation, how to realize that Coyote world in which creation never ends and people participate in the power of being creators, a world whose hopefulness lies in its unfinishedness, its openness to improvisation and participation. The revolutionary days I have been outlining are days in which hope is no longer fixed on the future: it becomes an electrifying force in the present.

A lone walker is both present and detached from the world around, more than an audience but less than a participant.

This is what we mean by democracy: that everyone has a voice, that no one gets away with things just because of their wealth, power, race, or gender.

Esto es lo que quiere decir democracia: que todo el mundo tiene voz, y que nadie se libra de las consecuencias de sus actos gracias a su riqueza, poder, raza o género.

The point of the essay was never to suggest that I think I am notably oppressed. It was to take these conversations as the narrow end of the wedge that opens up space for men and closes it off for women, space to speak, to be heard, to have rights, to participate, to be respected, to be a full and free human being.

By working so hard at self-improvement we lose the energy and ability to participate in any form of social change

Nature is the expression of the Logos, as are human beings, and our task is to wake up and participate consciously.

The ideal organizational environment encourages everyone to observe, collect data, and speak up.

We are not, as we had told ourselves, the victim of circumstances. We played an active part in our own undoing.

When Hans asks for more volunteers, half a dozen people step eagerly forward, but I am not one of them. I tell myself it's because I should let the tuition-paying students, those who are here legitimately, get the experience, but the truth is that somewhere deep inside I don't want to be a party to this slaughter, that I feel somehow less culpable as an observer than as a participant. Nonsense, of course.

For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.

What is crucial in the true state is not the fact that every citizen has the chance to devote himself to the universal interest in the shape of a particular class, but the capacity of the universal class to be really universal, i.e. to be the class of every citizen.

Az biraz tarih bilen herkes büyük sosyal devrimlerin kad?nlar?n kat?l?m? olmadan gerçekleÅŸemeyeceÄŸini bilir. Toplumsal geliÅŸim bizzat daha güzel olan bu cinsiyetin (çirkinler dahil) toplumsal konumuna bak?larak ölçülebilir.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.

Men have always volunteered, they just called themselves coaches, trustees, and firemen!

All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.

I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.

My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.

Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.

I know if I was a woman I wouldnt want to be a member of an organization thats mostly men.

The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation in the Life that is the Light of men.