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• We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Hero, Evil

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.26, Beacon Press

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• I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

  Craig Ferguson

  Art, Thinking, Comedy

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• At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  World, Observers

  Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Order, Hateful

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.

  Edward Norton

  Drama, Thinking, Trying

  "Q&A: Edward Norton comes to grips with De Niro and The Boss". Interview with Peter Howell, www.thestar.com. September 9, 2010.

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• You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

  David McCullough

  Democracy, Knows, Ifs

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 29, 2012

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• The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.

  John Lewis

  Rights, Movement, Saws

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• To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

  Louis L'Amour

  Political, Democracy, Doe

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.180, Bantam

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• The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Emotional, Winning

  Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

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• I've campaigned for people. I've campaigned across the country for people. I have supported people in local elections. I do work with groups and causes. So, I feel like I am a participant and a civically-engaged citizen.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Country, People, Groups

  "More Caroline: Spoke to Hillary, won't run if not selected". Interview With Ben Smith, www.politico.com. December 26, 2008.

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• Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.

  Daniel Goleman

  Teacher, Children, School

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• The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.

  Angela Davis

  Powerful, Numbers, People

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• On April 19 1943, the Bermuda conference gathered, with the participation of representatives from Britain and the United States, in order to discuss saving the Jews of Europe. In fact, the participants did everything in their power to avoid dealing with the problem.

  Ariel Sharon

  Order, Europe, United States

  "Anger amid the tears - did the allies do enough to save Jews?" by Owen Bowcott, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2005.

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• To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor that affects all three: the long-term solvency of a bond company called the U.S. government.

  Amity Shlaes

  Jobs, Government, Order

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• By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Creating, People

  "The Rachel Maddow Show" with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. March 24, 2009.

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• You are not an observer, you are a participant.

  Nhat Hanh

  Observers

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Alienation, Walkers, Lone

  Rebecca Solnit (2014). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.36, Granta Books

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• I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.

  Bell Hooks

  Practice, Paradise, Students

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• This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or love. She knew that she had crossed the forbidden boundary, but she proceeded across it without objections and as a full participant; only somewhere, far off in a corner of her consciousness, did she feel horror at the thought that she had never known such pleasure, never so much pleasure as at this moment--beyond that boundary.

  Milan Kundera

  Girl, Emotion, Consciousness

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• Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool.

  Charles Bukowski

  Real, Two, People

  Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

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• Occupy is anything but a protest movement. That's why it has been so hard for news agencies to express or even discern the "demands" of the growing legions of Occupy participants around the nation, and even the world.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Agency, News, Movement

  "Occupy Wall Street beta tests a new way of living" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. October 25, 2011.

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• A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.'

  Howard Rheingold

  Games, Firsts, Kind

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• A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens.

  Reza Aslan

  War, Drama, Believe

  Reza Aslan (2010). “Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization”, p.5, Random House

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• Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it — or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Character, Cameras

  "The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time".

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• As I'm sure you may know, I'm planning to become a spaceflight participant and have been recently approved to begin my spaceflight training by the Russian space federation having passed the necessary medical and physical tests.

  Sarah Brightman

  Space, Training, May

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