Quotes about Participation
Democracy is just something you must do every day, like brushing you teeth.
— Gloria Steinem
Politics are a part of daily life.
— Gloria Steinem
Voting isn't the most we can do, but it's the least.
— Gloria Steinem
Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
— Patrick Lencioni
There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.
— Hillary Clinton
We live in the world with you. We do not forsake forum or bath or workshop, or inn, or market, or any other place of commerce. We sail with you, fight with you, farm with you.
— Tertullian
The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
— Theodore Roosevelt
My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.
— Charles Dickens
To be creative is only to have health: to keep oneself fully alive in the Creation, to keep the Creation fully alive in oneself, to see the Creation anew, to welcome one's part in it anew.
— Wendell Berry
Make no mistake, here in our time, it's more important than ever that we show up to vote, not just this year, but every year and in every election. Every voice must be heard and every vote must be counted.
— Michelle Obama
What we need is evangelicals and Catholics who discern the primary demand of our time: a celebration of our heavenly participation in the eternal Word of God. Only a heavenly minded Christian faith will do us any earthly good.
— Hans Boersma
Augustine's concept of time was sacramental: time participates in the eternity of God's life, and it is this participation that is able to gather past, present, and future together into one.
— Hans Boersma