Whitfield Diffie Quotes

I was in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas. I've argued for Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the United Farm Workers. I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck. But I got into this to tell the truth as I saw it.

A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.

Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics and society.

We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.

I think the good thing about Macklemore is that he is very precise about what he gets involved in. As you can tell, he's very passionate about what he puts his name on, because he talks about things people don't usually talk about, and his concepts are very, very passionate.

I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.

I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns.

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

Everything I do has an underlying political question.

When I do a political movie, I do a political movie.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues ….

I am pretty heavy into causes. I'm an active Democrat, I boycott grapes, and I work for prison reform.

I need to get a tiny bit more 'woke.'

For me, politics is about passion. It doesn't matter what you know; it's your actions that count. I meet people who say they're socialists, and that's not what they carry out in their everyday life.

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.

Now I am at the point people are believing in my music, I couldn't live with myself if I didn't talk about what I believe in.

Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need to start making activists celebrities rather than trying to make celebrities to be activists.

I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

Everything I do is political.

I have been apolitical all my life.

If I ever called myself an activist, I regret it, and I was cornered into it by an industry who couldn't justify me taking up space without saying that I had some kind of radical political agenda because they saw my participation as a radical political thing. Which it was not.

I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.

I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.

I've always believed the New Left is rank.