Anand Giridharadas Quotes

This is good government. We have divided government. To make divided government work you can’t ask each other to compromise core principles…. We ask each other to find common ground for the common good.

People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets with the same vigor with which they attempt to denigrate the Occupy protesters.

Christians and non-Christian voters alike have become far too comfortable slinging rocks at the expense of making any real political or social progress.

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

When push comes to shove, we all should know most Americans want the same things, but just disagree on how to get there, which is why it should be okay to not panic if the other party wins.

I've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!

I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table.

The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them - all of the lawmakers - have hearts to do what's right, and they all are passionate about it.

Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.

The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent.

Occupy is anything but a protest movement. That's why it has been so hard for news agencies to express or even discern the 'demands' of the growing legions of Occupy participants around the nation, and even the world.

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

I think that rather than saying that Occupy Wall Street has died, we can say that they're in the process of understanding what the long march through alternative institutions might mean.

To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen.

We aren't as divided as we think we are. We're not just Republicans sitting in one corner, and Democrats sitting in the other corner.

You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a single issue; it's always more than that.

Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.

Change never comes from the White House. It comes from your house and my house.

Our two-party system has served us well over the years, but never better than in those times of great challenge when we came together not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans united in a common cause.

Newt Gingrich can bring the two parties together like no one else. They will be together against him.

Democracy comes alive not when government does anything, because government cannot be depended on to rectify serious injustices. It comes alive when people organize and do something about it.

We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists

My belief is that despite all the media hoopla, there is much more that unites Republicans than divides us.