Political Action Quotes

• Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  4th Of July, Politics Today, Answers

  Speech at Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland, on February 18, 1958. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: Profiles in Courage Quotations", www.jfklibrary.org.

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• Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

  John F. Kennedy

  Responsibility, Political, Citizens

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• Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Mean, Responsibility, Political

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• Each of us should choose which course of action we must take; education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes, but let it not be said that we did nothing.

  Ron Paul

  Political, Peaceful, Necessary Change

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• Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.

  Paul Krugman

  Class, Political, Action

  Paul Krugman (2015). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming America From The Right”, p.25, Penguin UK

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• If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Fire, Car, Political

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• There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

  Harry Bridges

  Fighting, Political, Weapons

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• If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Lying, Political, Politics

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• Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action.

  Cass Sunstein

  Real, Government, Space

  "String Theories: We're Living In Cass Sunstein's World, Get Used To It" by Tom Siebert, www.mediapost.com. February 19, 2018.

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• Voting is the foundation stone for political action.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Political, Voting, Foundation

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• Do not use thought to ground a political practice in Truth; nor political action to discredit, as mere speculation, a line of thought. Use political practice as an intensifier of thought, and analysis as a multiplier of the forms and domains for the intervention of political action.

  Michel Foucault

  Practice, Political, Use

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• I'm interested in the way that the language of labor has been suppressed in our culture, the way it has disappeared from our vocabulary and is never heard on stage. . . . I'm better at writing than I am at organizing [political action]. SLAUGHTER CITY is my small contribution. If it gives people a voice it is worth something. So often we forget what we are no longer hearing.

  Naomi Wallace

  Writing, Vocabulary, Cities

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• Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Creativity, Self, Creating

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• The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

  Paul Kantner

  Volunteer, Political, Action

  Interview by Patricia Kennealy, www.jeffersonstarshipsf.com. February, 1971.

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• Any time the negro becomes involved in mature political action, then the resistance of the politicians who benefit from the exploited political system as it now stands will be forced to put, exercise more violent action to deprive the negro of his mature political action.

  Malcolm X

  Exercise, Political, Benefits

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• I'm not leaving the fight just because I decided not to run. I'm going to expand my political action committee and volunteer for it. I'm going to do lots of other things where I will have a voice. So I'm not leaving the fight.

  Barbara Boxer

  Running, Fighting, Voice

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I also think we need unconventional political action, and I increasingly think that there is a need for people of faith to be able to do the kind of things that people of faith did 40 years ago in the heat of the civil rights revolution. This is a moral issue of every bit as much importance requiring every bit as much sacrifice, courage, and energy as that crisis did.

  Bill McKibben

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Rights

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• [Political actions] has to happen on the local and state level; we have to convince our cities to join the growing number of more than 200 American cities who have signed on to the mayor's climate campaign.

  Bill McKibben

  Cities, Numbers, Political

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• By themselves, they are not enough; we also need to engage in political action.

  Bill McKibben

  Political, Needs, Action

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• Now the good of political life is a great political good. It is not a secular good specified by a comprehensive doctrine like those of Kant or Mill. You could characterize this political good as the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another: the duty to give citizens public reasons for one's political actions.

  John Rawls

  Giving, Political, Doctrine

  Interview with Bernard G. Prusak, www.commonwealmagazine.org. September 25, 1998.

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• What can I do to help? I am asking my senator to support political action to end hunger in the greatest country on this planet.

  Martin Landau

  Country, Support, Political

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• Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Mistake, Errors

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.49, Pan Macmillan

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• When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable nature of politics.

  Ron Paul

  Goal, Political, Liberty

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• What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity.

  Tom Robbins

  Attitude, Opposites, People

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.138, Bantam

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• At times I think the truest image of God today is a black inner-city grandmother in the United States or a mother of the disappeared in Argentina or the women who wake up early to make tortillas in refugee camps. They all weep for their children, and in their compassionate tears arises the political action that changes the world. The mothers show us that it is the experience of touching the pain of others that is the key to change.

  Jim Wallis

  Mother, Children, Pain

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