Quotes About Participation

For them absolutely everything in life is a political choice and a political act.

A greater sense of do-it-yourself (DIY) politics is exposed by the fact Cascadians are more likely to disagree that "voting is the only way people like me can have a say about how the government runs things" (54 percent disagree versus 37 percent, RoNA).

Political democracy cannot last unless there is at the base of it, a social democracy.

Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun But you have to know how.

So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

it is a terrible fact, but it is a fact, that few people have the imagination or the moral sensitivity to get very excited about actions which they don't participate in themselves.... and hence about which they feel no personal responsibility

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.

Life is more fun when you open your mouth.

Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen's possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved in life in society.

I think we all have a role to play in life.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life!

Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.

The greatest failure in life is the failure to participate in life.

I Chose to be an active participant in my life rather than a spectator.

I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it. . . . I think the great danger in life is not showing up.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

I just eat life... I engage in life.

Don't sit back and be a bystander of your own life