Fans of politics will enjoy these quotes on actions from famed politicians.
“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
“Voting is the foundation stone for political action.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.” ~ Paulo Freire
“There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.” ~ Harry Bridges
“I don’t care much about the outcome. I’d like for people to feel better and have better lives, but I don’t think that’s in the cards through political action. I think bloodshed is still the way you get dramatic change. That’ll never happen because they’ve got all the guns now. At least they’ve got the nice guns, the big ones, the ones with night vision.” ~ George Carlin
“By themselves, they are not enough; we also need to engage in political action.” ~ Bill McKibben
“The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and whatever decision is taken will harm somebody.” ~ James Joll
“If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.” ~ David Harvey
“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
“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
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