Politics Quotes

"You cannot separate the political consciousness from the social consciousness."

"Just as it was the goal of the British Empire to create Indians in the image of Englishmen, so too it is the goal of American system to create Negroes in the image of white Americans."

"To not be active in politics is to be passive in the creation of oppression."

"You can't separate morality from politics."

"If the individual states should continue to ignore the mandate of the Federal Constitution, the federal government has to step in and do something about it."

"I am a radical and always was."

"There is no Negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough to live up to their own constitution."

"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line."

"The Negro problem is really America's problem."

"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage."

"Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them was not worth ruling."

"We women are not satisfied with representation; we demand participation."

"My father was a statesman, I am a political woman."

"Democracy is the best political system, despite its shortcomings."

"Loyalty to the nation is above all else."

"A political worker must understand the nuances of society."

"Democracy is the best political weapon ever created."

"Nationalism is a menace."

"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time."

"Patriotism is not the last refuge of a scoundrel."

"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public."

"There is a certain class of race problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds on, they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."

"You can't have capitalism without racism."

"I believe we should separate because integration is impossible."

"They're not going to count the votes. I'm not going to vote anyway."

"Politics should be the art of serving people, not controlling them."

"The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics."

"The vote is not a favor granted by the powerful; it is a right earned through struggle."

"The question before this nation is not whether we have the resources to build, but whether we have the will."

"Democracy is a system that requires eternal vigilance and participation."