Susan Estrich Quotes

I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned.

If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

I don't often get involved with campaigns at all.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

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.

I'm a young person; sometimes I'm political, sometimes I'm not.

Even though I grew up and I didn't always like getting dragged to the meetings or the rallies or the speeches, I developed a very strong respect for participating in a democratic process.

I think voting is the lowest form of political action that you can do. A lot of times, it keeps people from doing stronger things.

We don't get a more responsive government unless we start to systematically run organizing campaigns to change the way government works.

I'm almost totally politically inactive.

I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face.

Governments do not care about your Facebook-assembled opinion. Incompetent politicians don't read your tweets; there are reasons for them being out of touch. Change does not come about for 'likes' on a page, though the ideas for it may start there.

There are people who have demonstrated their willingness to challenge systems and structures, and then when it comes to elections, some of those same people - I don't know where their fight went. What's interesting to me is to see people lose the revolution when it comes to elections.

I'm not leaving the fight just because I decided not to run. I'm going to expand my political action committee and volunteer for it. I'm going to do lots of other things where I will have a voice. So I'm not leaving the fight.

I have been apolitical all my life.

I was never the feisty kind of activist.

I am a full-time political worker.

Get involved in your neighborhood. That's how I got really, really committed to the immigrant rights movement.

I think more people are engaged in the issues I want to talk about.

From the streets of Los Angeles to the public schools of the Bronx, there is no state of the Union where Latinos are not becoming local leaders and responsible politicians.

Getting political representation is important, but change comes through using direct action, campaigning, and trade unions.

One doesn't have to be an activist and start a movement.

You become a senator not by being passive but by being active, and all of a sudden, we've got a whole group just deciding to sit on their palms.

I consider myself an activist who governs.

We're seeing young people find their own voices and find their activism.