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Political Activism Quotes

Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on. Vladimir Putin
Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self. Tom Robbins
Q: Is it still possible nowadays to influence the world by songs? To be political by means of messages? A: No, there are newspapers for that. When people want to deal with the world, they should watch television. Q: That's very passive. A: The world has become like that. People are going to the football stadium, they don't play themselves anymore. Q: Did you ever think you could be politically active through your songs? A: No, no, no. If I had wanted to do that, I would have gone to... Bob Dylan
Interest yourself in public affairs as a duty of citizenship, but do not surrender your faith to those who discredit and debase politics by scoffing at sentiment and principle, and whose political activity consists in attempts to gain popular support by cunning devices and shrewd manipulation. Grover Cleveland
I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. Diane Wakoski
I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well. John Keegan
The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the new emerging Indian middle class? they needed a princess. They had the wrong woman. I had this light shining on me at the time, and I knew that I had the stage to say something about what was happening in my country. What is exciting about what I have done since is that writing has become a weapon, some kind of ammunition. Arundhati Roy
Tom Ford quote: "College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity."
College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity. Tom Ford
My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. Camille Paglia
Paul Wellstone quote: "Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to..."
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. Paul Wellstone
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. Barack Obama
Katherine Harris quote: "No partisan political activity transpired in my office during..."
No partisan political activity transpired in my office during the recount period. Katherine Harris
Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities. Ernst Thalmann
John Hall quote: "I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom -..."
I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity. John Hall
Alice Walker quote: "I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a..."
I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here. Alice Walker

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