Political Awareness Quotes

• Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Political, Culture, Awareness

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• Ever since I've had any political awareness, I've felt either alone or part of a tiny minority.

  Noam Chomsky

  Political, Minorities, Tiny

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• In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.

  John Berger

  Writing, People, Political

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• I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom.

  Ayad Akhtar

  Political, Awareness, Preoccupation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations from the works of Lenin and a discussion of the lessons to be learned from the readings. It is very much like a church service.

  Tom Clancy

  Reading, Sunday, Lessons To Be Learned

  Tom Clancy (1992). “The Hunt for Red October”, p.41, Penguin

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• It transmitted because on the campuses, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was recruiting, was organizing. Students for a Democratic Society was founded at Michigan just a couple years before I got there. So, there was a kind of a churning of political awareness. It was just beginning.

  Bill Ayers

  Couple, Years, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is.

  Jimmy Carter

  Real, Taken, Political

  "Jimmy Carter Talking About Himself... His Record... His Campaign". Interview with Meg Greenfield, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 1980.

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• Ensnared in his starvation, Chaplin-man is always just below political awareness. A strike is a catastrophe for him because it threatens a man truly blinded by his hunger; this man achieves an awareness of the working-class condition only when the poor man and the proletarian coincide under the gaze (and the blows) of the police.

  Roland Barthes

  Blow, Men, Class

  Roland Barthes (1973). “Mythologies”

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