Politics Quotes
Power, governance, and the messy business of organizing human societies.
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"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush."Martin Luther King Jr.
"Politics shapes the destiny of nations"Rubén Darío
"Politics requires moral courage"Rubén Darío
"In the labyrinth of politics, integrity becomes the thread that guides us home."Jorge Edwards
"The oppressed have a right to their rage, and the world has a duty to listen."Miguel Ángel Asturias
"A woman's body is a political statement in itself."Gioconda Belli
"Public opinion in this country is everything."Abraham Lincoln
"My Supreme Court does not have the final word on Constitutional questions."Abraham Lincoln
"No policy that does not rest on some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained."Abraham Lincoln
"To change society, you must first change language."Kathy Acker
"Power operates through the control of narrative."Kathy Acker
"The personal is the political, and vice versa."Kathy Acker
"The body is political. All body is political."Kathy Acker
"To understand power, study its margins."Kathy Acker
"Power is most visible at its points of rupture."Kathy Acker
"We should not allow our rulers to do whatever they like."Nelson Mandela
"Politics is the art of the possible."Rosario Castellanos
"The soul of a nation is found in how it treats its most vulnerable."Miguel Ángel Asturias
"The politics of exclusion breeds the pathology of resentment."Miguel Ángel Asturias
"The revolution begins in the home, with ourselves."Gioconda Belli
"Politics is the struggle for who decides our fate."Nellie Campobello
"Politics is the arena where power and conscience collide."Nellie Campobello
"Rebellion is about refusing to accept how things are and imagining how they could be."Kathy Acker
"The personal is always political, and the political is always personal."Kathy Acker
"Art that affirms existing power structures is not really art at all."Kathy Acker
"Power is not just something exerted on us but something we participate in reproducing."Kathy Acker
"We are all implicated in systems of oppression; the question is what we do about it."Kathy Acker
"The personal is political; the intimate reveals the universal."Rosario Castellanos
"The personal is not just political; it is historical and eternal."Elena Garro
"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."Gioconda Belli