Quotes about Participation

You can't promote change standing on the sidelines.

Better to be in the arena getting stomped by the bulls, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.

In each and every election, it's your rights, it's your freedoms, it's your interests that are on the ballot.

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

Everyone eligible to vote should be able to do so without unnecessary inconvenience

Whatever other resources you may have, you can always use your voice and your vote to effect change.

the normative church meeting is when every member of the church comes together to share his or her portion of Christ (1 Corinthians 14:26, Colossians 3:16, Hebrews 10:24-25). All are free to teach, preach, prophesy, pray, and lead a song.

In Jesus Christ, you and I have received something far greater than a personal Savior. We have received Jesus Christ's very own relationship with His Father! According to New Testament teaching, what the Father was to Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ is to you and me. Because we are now "in Christ," the Father loves us and treats us just as He does His own Son. In other words, we share and participate in Christ's perfect relationship with His Father.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

Showing up is not all of life - but it counts for a lot.

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

Politics is the participation of the citizen in his government. The kind of government he has depends entirely on the quality of that participation. Therefore, every single one of us must learn, as early as possible, to understand and accept our duties as a citizen.