- Nov 07, 2020
Politics Quotes
Voices on ideology, debate, and public life.
These politics quotes range from a personal statement linking radical belief to the character of one's work, to an observation that casual conversation about politics rarely gets taken too seriously. Together they capture politics as something people engage with unevenly, with real distance between everyday talk and lasting conviction.
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of my politics, I don't necessarily think that the independent capitalist is that much better than the multinational capitalist; it's just that the independent capitalist hasn't grown as big yet.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wasn't rapping about politics, then I might have been just another person trying to sell albums, and I might have sounded like everyone else out there.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The folks that are suggesting Occupy move to electoral politics are ignoring history, ignoring what actually creates change. People get involved in electoral politics because they think there is no movement that can create change.
- Change Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in politics to change things - if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples' sandcastles.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always sort of thought that politics was a high and noble calling and a good thing to do.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not very big on politics. I'm a comedian and not that smart. I don't have the mind capacity for it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a political guy; I really don't care a lot about politics. I never have and probably never will.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.
- Handed
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- Nov 07, 2020
American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
- Fore
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- Nov 07, 2020