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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are in the midst of an exciting canvass... I am working very hard in politics as well as in other matters. We are determined that Mississippi shall be settled on a basis of justice and political and legal equality.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd just as soon not get into a discussion about Jane and her politics. I'd just as soon stick to what we're here for, the picture.
- Democratic Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is invaluable about Angela Davis' work is that she does not limit her politics to issues removed from broader social considerations, but connects every aspect of her scholarship and public interventions to what the contours of a truly democratic society might look like.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can be made visible through the medium of collective voices and social movements energized by the need for a politics and way of life counter to authoritarian capitalism.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020