Quotes About Participation

Young people need to re-engage with politics. The life of democracy depends on it. We've left it to the stuff shirts, and obviously they haven't been minding the store.

I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.

Politics has always been a mud fight - better that citizens jump in the trough than lose interest.

In my family, we were not involved in politics at all.

Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson is discussing it should be welcome in that conversation.

The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few by resignation none.

A voteless people is a hopeless people.

You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.

We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.

The only way we can change our world is to take responsibility for our part in it.

Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty.

It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.

I never want to be a passive observer of life's possibilities.

Why does it seem that the church is more interested in people involvement rather than people engagement.

Everything practical and applicable is impractictal and inapplicable to the inactive participant.

The reality is that changes are coming. ... They must come. You must share in bringing them.

Part of the task of the leader is to make others participate in his leadership. The best leader knows how to make his followers actually feel power themselves, not merely acknowledge his power.

It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world.

Voting is not only our right, it is our power. When we vote, we take back our power to choose, to speak up, and to stand with those who support us and each other.

People don't listen to karaoke, they endure it until it is their turn. It is the singularly most self-indulgent form of entertainment available.

There aren't two worlds, education and work; there is one world-life. Learning by hands-on participation .... should be at the heart of our educational perspective.

Giving people a part brings their firsthand knowledge to bear on solving problems. Joint decisions are not necessarily better than unilateral ones, but including people makes their knowledge available to the decision-maker, whoever that may be. 4.?The knowledge thus provided is more than the facts about the problem—it also includes the facts about the self-interest of the various parties affected by the situation.