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Quotes About Engagement

I believe we have a responsibility, even if our job is to lead a nonprofit organization, as private citizens to be good citizens and to make our voices heard.
~ Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Radio leaves much to the audience's imagination, allows the listeners to fill in so much, provided that the voices convey enough.
~ Agnes Moorehead
It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.
~ Wendy Kopp
If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.
~ Kathleen Sebelius
As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.
~ Mandy Moore
Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.
~ Jessica Valenti
In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.
~ Noam Chomsky
Dad truly believed that Christians should be involved in the political process and should make their voices heard.
~ Jerry Falwell, Jr.
I think we need to raise our voices, and we need to demonstrate to the people we represent, as well as the American people, that their leaders have a responsibility to take action.
~ Elizabeth Esty
People need to make their voices heard in an orderly fashion.
~ Jeff Fortenberry
The people inside the company, generally two to three levels down, they know best what's wrong and how to fix it. It's just that their voices aren't being heard. I listen for words, tonality, and language.
~ Sandra E. Peterson
Put a lawn sign on your lawn; go door to door for your candidate. Register people to vote. There's so much we can do through our voices and time. That's what flips elections.
~ Kirsten Gillibrand
If you are not diverse and you are not listening to all voices and have your ear to the ground, you're not going to make the best decisions.
~ Valerie Jarrett
I, for myself, have wanted to get more into producing because I want to be a part of the conversation and be one of the voices in the story we're trying to tell.
~ Teyonah Parris
A poem, necessarily, sits at a register that's different from our usual conversational voices. You have to listen more actively to get to the heart of what's being said, what you as a reader or listener are being asked to feel or notice.
~ Tracy K. Smith
Social media is so weird. I hate it, to be honest, but I feel like we all need it in order to get our voices out there and really speak on things that we care about. That's the only time I use it.
~ Isabela Moner
What comedy does, for the most part, is it voices something so simplistically that people will agree with us, and then once you agree with something, you go, 'That's what I think.' So what you're trying to do is try to voice arguments that people get on a side with. So they can use that, maybe at a dinner party, themselves.
~ Jim Jefferies
I will stand up on issues as they arise, making sure that the voices of Georgians are always being heard.
~ Stacey Abrams
Women's voices need to be in politics, and shaping politics from the very beginning, not serve as an afterthought.
~ Zephyr Teachout
It is a huge myth that our voices don't matter, that our vote doesn't count.
~ Diane Guerrero
The better off Indian can engage more deeply with political process to demand effectiveness from the institutions of the state. We can raise our voices for better education and healthcare, for better public infrastructure, for cleaner air.
~ Rohini Nilekani
It's our duty in Congress to bring the voices of our communities to Washington.
~ Lucy McBath
And the purpose of small talk is not to be controversial, clever or even interesting. It's simply to fill the silent void with a small gesture of common humanity. It's a spoken smile, a verbal handshake.
~ Gyles Brandreth
I guess I would definitely feel a bit of a void in what people are getting from music these days. And I think that the problem lies not so much on the listener. People kind of listen to what is presented to them, whether it be on the radio or at a local venue.
~ Ben Lovett