Quotes About Engagement

In general, it should be in our interest to get organizations out of military activity and into politics.

I've tried to be active in civic organizations as well as the Church.

Because appearing to be fair is part of being fair, most mainstream news organizations discourage marching for causes, displaying political bumper stickers or giving cash to candidates.

When I first joined the Irvine Company, I realized that less than 11,000 acres were designated as open space in the original master plan, and that just didn't seem adequate to me. So, I began the lengthy process working with public and community organizations to add more open space.

I think a lot of people get hope through civic organizations and through their churches.

Working with different communities and organizations allows us to raise awareness in a nuanced and impactful way, while also giving us broad reach.

Even throughout college and post-college, I've always been incredibly hyperactive. Even at Boston College, I was involved in so many different organizations and initiatives.

When we grew up, we had YMCAs. Organizations and places where kids went to play.

In 1970, as a 26 year-old, I joined in the effort in my home state of Massachusetts to organize for Earth Day. But what made the event so successful was that I was only one of about 20 million Americans of all ages and backgrounds who got involved.

We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies.

Many businesses find their culture organized around a dangerous fault line known as 'us and them,' with executives on one side and employees on the other. The divide is both real and expensive.

Another word for politics in my mind is organization. You have to be organized; you have to get out there. It's not just magic.

If everything is too organized or too perfect, I get bored.

I'm an educator. I'm an organizer.

I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.

In 1981, I was a community organizer.

Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

A lot of organizers are trying to figure out how do we create entrances for people so they can be involved in the work in a way that makes them feel is aligned to the things they're interested in and not the things the organizer is interested in?

There's the part of me that's the organizer, part of me that's the artist, part of me that's the person who, even with those two things, wants to figure out what my place in the world is. How to engage with it and whether my life has any meaning.

When I think of an activist, I think of a community organizer who is working every day and directly with community members and making it a job to take care of and speak up for a community in some way.

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.

Organizing has to be a 12-month endeavor.

I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.

I've done community organizing my whole life and I think to myself, as an organizer, we don't wait for people to come to us and say, 'Help us organize something.' We go out into the community, and we bring the skills to a group of people to organize themselves.