Shane Claiborne Quotes

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

I've always been political.

By themselves, they are not enough; we also need to engage in political action.

I am such a political person.

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

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

You can’t win if you don’t play. The people who get involved in politics are more likely to get their way.

Don’t get involved with any political stuff.

I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics. Working within. Not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is.

My first passion is politics.

I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.

People always said you shouldn't get in politics and talk about politics. But I believe the politics are all around us.

No one can escape politics. We are all in it. Even if we shy away from it, I just decide to embrace it. And I try to be an ally for other fights.

A lot of people will say to me, they'll say, "When is Trump going to be gone?" People who are thinking that way and are waiting, for those folks I worry that every day when they wake up and Trump is still president, every day is November 9. That's not a good headspace to be in. It just happens to be the case that the best thing you can do to feel better is to be actively engaged in pushing back, and that also happens to be the best thing that you can do for the country right now.

The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process.

As Frederick Douglas, the famous abolitionist, said: "power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will." You need the truth, and you also need a demand, and you need to bring that demand into the realm of electoral politics. If you don't do that, it's very hard to get such an entrenched machine to move.

Being politically active is "more about doing things, not just standing for some platform or being involved in some political party."

To the very limited extent that I have a political consciousness, to some extent I'm a lazy, apolitical sort of guy that just flits around.

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.

I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.

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

My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.

I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner.