Amandla Stenberg Quotes

My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.

Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.

My parents are apolitical - no bumper stickers, no yard signs. They don't talk about politics.

I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have no power or vocation to set them right in ever so little a degree.

I worry that, given the way the 2016 election went, how cynical and how terrible politics seems, that young people will be less likely to get involved.

I grew up around politics. I organized my first campaign when I was 14, a walk-out in my high school to protest the year-round school schedule.

Young people need to re-engage with politics. The life of democracy depends on it. We've left it to the stuff shirts, and obviously they haven't been minding the store.

I do think that you're starting to see young people pay attention to some longterm issues that they feel Washington has neglected.

As Americans, we have to be honest and ask ourselves a question: Do we really want to tone down politics? I always hear a resounding 'yes,' and I think most people mean that genuinely. But do our practices ever change?

I kind of became apolitical.

I feel like we're in the era now where politics is pop culture. Everybody has an opinion that's politically based. We see what the Trump administration has done, and I've never seen my culture this engaged in the political process.

I voted in elections - probably like a lot of people - but I didn't really pay that much attention to politics. But there was something that happened in 2016, and I think people were reawakened in this country.

I've never been inspired by a politician in France, and I think a lot of my own generation think that way.

I'm almost totally politically inactive.

I actually, honestly don't look into politics that much.

The most significant social pathology of my youth was the generation gap.

I don't talk about politics much. I don't care for it.

I think sometimes with politics, young people especially have become disillusioned with it, because they can't relate to it, there's a lot of snobbery and people are a lot older.

There is a disconnect between Arkansas and Washington, D.C. The career politicians in Washington are not listening to people here in Arkansas, and this is the fundamental problem with politics.

I have no interest in politics. I have been offered to join politics, but I am not even interested in it even one per cent.

I think that young people understand me perfectly. I think that's the luckiest thing about my career, that I get older and they get younger, and it didn't stop with my generation.

He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute.

People don't see hunger in front of them so they are not directly affected. What I am doing is connecting young people to the issue

I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.