Politics Quotes

"Economic colonialism is alive and well in Indian Country."

"Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they receive from the exploitation of workers."

"The prison system is not about rehabilitation but about containment of the poor and marginalized."

"The personal becomes political when we understand how our individual struggles connect to larger systems of oppression."

"Neoliberalism has become a kind of wall that surrounds us all."

"The shock doctrine has become the standard operating procedure of governments."

"The real barrier to climate action is not scientific or economic, but political."

"The personal is political."

"The personal is political, and understanding ourselves means understanding the systems that shape us."

"Politics is everything because everything is political."

"I think it's a sign of how much this country is deteriorating, that you can't even have a civilized conversation."

"The government is not interested in what people think."

"You can't really separate your personal life from your political life."

"The fossil fuel industry has become a rogue industry"

"We live in the age of manufacture—the manufacture of consent, the manufacture of identity"

"Despair is a political choice"

"The problem is not that we lack solutions; it's that we lack political will"

"The personal is political, and our individual stories are threads in the fabric of social change."

"The economy of the Earth does not recognize the artificial boundaries we create."

"Real democracy requires a living Earth."

"Every choice we make is a vote for the world we want to see."

"There is no such thing as a single issue. We do not live single issue lives."

"The terms upon which any of us comes to power is so full of compromises, whole terms, conditions, lies."

"Revolution is not a one-time event, but a continuous process of growth and change."

"Industrial agriculture is not feeding the world; it is destroying the world while claiming to feed it."

"Industrial food systems concentrate power in the hands of a few corporations at the expense of many."

"The fight for biodiversity is the fight for a pluralistic world against corporate monoculture."

"The colonization of agriculture continues through trade agreements and patent laws."

"The personal is always political; nothing we do is separate from the structures around us."

"The shock doctrine exploits our fear to implement unpopular policies while we're in crisis."