Quotes About Participation

We must participate in this world that has birthed us. We must not sit around in rawhide rocking chairs with our heads sunk in grief, while the waters trickle past. We must join the waters.

He wants to be included in every activity, every conversation, every problem, and even every thought.

You would almost think the people who have always opposed women's independence and full participation in society were still at it. They can't push women all the way back, but they can use women's bodies to keep them under surveillance and control.

Life is for participating, not for spectating.

If you don't take an interest, then what happens is your fault.

In the old days you wouldn't discuss politics at all." "If you don't take an interest, then what happens is your fault.

I'm allowed to sit in on the lessons

Si tu ne t'intéresses pas à ce qui se passe autour de toi, alors tu es responsable de ce qui se passe.

You're either on the bus or off the bus.

Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and conceptions.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.

Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.

For we put the power in the people.

Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated.

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.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have.

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper.

I want everyone to feel as much as possible as if they inhabit the same space. They more fluid the relationship between actor and audience, the better.

Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed

"Vote early and vote often," the advice openly displayed on the election banners in one of our northern cities.