The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
quote by H. Rap Brown
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Related quotes
Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
quote by Paul Wellstone
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Politics
in this country of mine
there is so much politicking
they want to know my color
they want me black
pure black
the other side wants me to be white
unadulterated white
i tell them i want to have no color at all
i just want to be myself
like a neutral transparent rain water
and all of them are angry
i cannot please everybody i said
but they do not listen
they put politics in the pulpit
in the market even in the cemetery
they put politics in the air and in the water
and in the soil
and even in the sub-soil
the worms are getting political too
and even the hawks and finches
the pebbles have no choice
but to go political too
they are now in disagreement with the river
and the bamboo trees
there is chaos in the mountain
the waterfalls rage
and then politics eventually destroys the
ecosystem
and the heavens and the purgatory
now there is only hell.
this morning they put politics as breakfast on my table.
i decided finally not to eat any.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
quote by Paul Wellstone
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
quote by Paul Wellstone
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much — and its big, awkward, sprawling people. Anyway, I don't like politics; and I don't make "political gestures" … I don't even believe in politics. To me, politics is like one of those annoying, and potentially dangerous (but generally just painful) chronic diseases that you just have to put up with in your life if you happen to have contracted it. Politics is like having diabetes. It's a science, a catch-as-catch-can science, which has grown up out of simple animal necessity more than anything else. If I were twice as big as I am, and twice as physically strong, I think I'd be a total anarchist.
quote by James Jones
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!
I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.
quote by Kevin Costner
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!
Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.
quote by Barbara Mikulski
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
quote by Harold Rosenberg
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.
quote by Joe Eszterhas
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.
quote by Kenneth Koch
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
quote by P.J. O'Rourke
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
quote by Pat Roberts
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
quote by Ricardo Montalban
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.
quote by Glenn Beck
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
We, the most powerful democracy in the world, have developed a strong norm against talking about politics. It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with. Political discourse becomes isolated, and isolated discourse becomes more extreme. We say what our friends want to hear, and hear very little beyond what our friends say.
quote by Lawrence Lessig
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!
I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
quote by Pat Oliphant
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics.
I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
quote by Tony Blair
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.
quote by Sonny Perdue
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Where people ignore politics, it is normal for politics to do the same!
quote by Octav Bibere
Submitted by Kitsy Bush
Vote! | Copy!