Quotes About Engagement

He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.

Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

Decisions are best made by the people affected by them.

If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them. If you hope people will change how they live, you have to know how they live. If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye.

Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.

Sometimes when I'm in the midst of all this, I can hear my mother saying, 'Democracy is just something you must do every day, like brushing your teeth.

Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least.

Voting isn't the most we can do, but the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one.

All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking back.

Women have to learn how to talk as much as we listen. Men have to learn how to listen as much as they talk.

we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.

As I was to learn, avoiding conflict causes conflict to seek you out.

I recommend trying this kind of grassroots organizing for a week or a year, a month or a lifetime—working for whatever change you want to see in the world. Then one day you will be talking to a stranger who has no idea you played any part in the victory she or he is celebrating.

There is power in proximity. Get close to the problem you feel drawn to. Change the narrative. Stay hopeful. Be willing to do uncomfortable things.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel like I should be doing something else.

people in the same room understand and empathize with each other in a way that isn't possible on the page or screen.

I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions.

learned: people in the same room understand and empathize with each other in a way that isn't possible on the page or screen.

If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them.

Nothing can replace being in the same space. That's exactly why we need to keep creating the temporary worlds of meetings, small and large, on campuses and everywhere else.

Democracy is just something you must do every day, like brushing you teeth.

We could double our chances by working for one of these candidates, not against the other. For now, I've figured out how to answer reporters when they ask if I'm supporting Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. I just say yes.

All my years of campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To

Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still