#Participation Quotes

“Conflict cannot survive without your participation.”

“Where everyman is participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year but everyday, he will let the heart be torn out of his body sooner than his power be wrested from him by a Caesar or a Bonaparte.”

“Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.”

“I dance with the dancers.”

“If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you.”

“The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed of the strong men who take the trouble to do the work of government; and if you are too timid or too fastidious or too careless to do your part in this work, then you forfeit your right to be considered one of the governing and you become one of the governed insteadone of the driven cattle of the political arena.”

“The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.”

“It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well.”

“I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.”

“I always say there's no ticket of admission for active citizenship. Anybody can get through that gate, and anybody can ask that basic question that gets the ball rolling.”

“There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.”

“At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it.”

“In its proper meaning equality before the law means the right to participate in the making of the laws by which one is governed, a constitution which guarantees democratic rights to all sections of the population, the right to approach the court for protection or relief in the case of the violation of rights guaranteed in the constitution, and the right to take part in the administration of justice as judges, magistrates, attorneys-general, law advisers and similar positions.”

“Don't let your fear of failing triumph over the joy of participating.”

“I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner.”

“Freedom is participation in power.”

“Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.”

“In life, be a participant, not a spectator.”

“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life”

“I don't stand back and judge - I do.”

“It's a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.”

“We should be creative, and we should accommodate the needs of every community to open up the democratic process. We should make it easy and accessible for every citizen to participate.”

“I must have my share in the conversation.”

“Until today the rights of people have always been put forward by a few individuals acting in the name of the masses. Today instead of people no longer want to be represented; each wants to speak for himself and participate directly - it's the same for the Negroes, for the Jews, for women.”

“Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.”

“The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.”

“I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.”

“The more we can encourage participation, I think the better off we are.”

“So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!”

“If I do not participate in the sacrifice, it is as if I did not sacrifice at all.”

“The world is run by the people who show up.”

“If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country.”

“In the United States, if 43 percent of eligible voters do not vote, then democracy is weakened.”

“the one who doesnt play, doesnt win anything, but he actually looses somehting, {playing}”