Marguerite Young Quotes

I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

What I always try to do is make the political personal.

I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.

Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

People in my world can be disdainful of political and social problems and solutions. But we're never going to stop needing those.

We are not apathetic in this country.

I'm not inherently the most politically or, like, socially conscious rapper, you know? You're not just going to wake up tomorrow and be Common.

I think it's very important of course that you're politically aware of what you do.

Honestly, I'm not a big activism or politic guy. I wouldn't say I'm super educated in that stuff, and I feel like I shouldn't speak on things that I don't understand too much.

I'm very political and I'm not ashamed of it, and I think having the platform I have, I want to take advantage of that.

I have never been political, which for a straight white man that's kind of a byproduct of privilege growing up that I was kind of like, "Who cares who the president is, everything is coming up privilege." But now things are so scary and crazy and I have to say I'm not a fan of Trump at all. I don't agree with him in any way.

I don't play politics; I don't do that. I think there's too many celebrities out there claiming what they believe. I think it's our job to get people out to study the issues and to know what they believe and what they want to vote for.

I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.

I'm very much in the trenches, and I don't live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-class military family. We watch the news and read the paper and vote, so there's always something to be upset about. I always have a certain amount of angst in my back pocket.

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.

I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe.

My father, Melvin van Peebles, and my mother were both very active politically when I was a kid. The first time I was allowed to stay up late was to attend a demonstration.

I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.

I'm from a very politically and socially conscious family. My mother always made a point of making us look at what was going on around us and take stock of our part in it.

I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.

I think everybody's political. The act of being alive is political. Unless you choose to be a hermit, you're automatically political because you're part of a community.

Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.