Quotes About Participation

It is obvious that politics would gain much in prestige if the money-raising campaign were conducted candidly and publicly, like the campaigns for the war funds. Charity drives might be made excellent models for political funds drives. The elimination of the little black bag element in politics would raise the entire prestige of politics in America, and the public interest would be infinitely greater if the actual participation occurred earlier and more constructively in the campaign.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

Democratic hope envisions a political community where power, freedom, opportunity, and accountability reside not with elites or experts, but with everyday, ordinary people. It is anchored in the conviction that the political whole is more than the sum of the parts and must include all but be dominated by none.

Personally, I can do very little, but I can contribute to a whole chain of events, and that's a marvelous feeling. It's like a bonus to me towards the end of my life. It gives me a voice." (Audrey Hepburn)

Today on social media, how many are on duty?

You can be, should be, and need to be involved in the world. It truly needs you.

The world needs to coax more such folks into public positions. But if they don't coax us, we had better volunteer now and then.

You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.

What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

When you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem.

If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.

What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

One of the things I believe most intensely is that every child's why should be answered with care—and with respect. If you do not know the answer, and you often will not, then take the child with you to a source to find the answer. This may be a dictionary or encyclopedia which he is too young to use himself, but he will have had a sense of participation in finding the answer.

Politics is the participation of the citizen in his government. The kind of government he has depends entirely on the quality of that participation. Therefore, every single one of us must learn, as early as possible, to understand and accept our duties as a citizen.

The function of democratic living is not to lower standards but to raise those that have been too low.

My compliance without participation began to disorientate him. I thought, as always in those circumstances, that I should pretend a yearning and uncontrolled passion or push him away. But I didn't dare to either one or the other: I was afraid I would throw up, because the result would be earthquake-like waves. I had only to wait.

Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present. And begin with the scum in your area, put their backs to the wall.

you have to get your hands dirty if you want to change things.

He turned to Marirosa, as if irritated by the too private note of our exchange: "Elena is asking what there is to do." Mariarosa answered cheerfully: "The revolution." So I assumed a mocking tone, I said: "And in your free time?

after all these programs and scholarships, after all the work done by organized athletics at all levels, the number of boys actually playing baseball or football is far lower than before: no one is outdoors playing.

But listening to or participating in music can restore a person to himself, as the epigraph to this chapter suggests. People need to recapture what has been excluded during working hours: their subjectivity.

When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are on their balconies. I participate in planetary gravitation in the fissures of my mind.