Political Engagement Quotes:

Our marvelous new information technologies boost our power and opportunities for political engagement, but they can also disempower us by contributing to extreme political mobilization that sometimes overwhelms our institutions. These institutions were designed for rural societies operation at a tiny fraction of today's speed and with a citizenry vastly less capable that today's. It's unclear how they will change to adapt to the new reality, but change they must.

- Thomas Homer-Dixon

topic: Technology, Opportunity, Reality, Mobilization, Political Engagement

One of the great dangers in political engagement is misplaced hope.

- Shane Claiborne

source: "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

topic: Political, Engagement, Danger, Political Engagement

A life-long mission has been to counter the notion that political engagement is the spinach we must eat in order to have the dessert of freedom.

- Frances Moore Lappé

source: Source: www.yesmagazine.org

topic: Order, Long, Political, Political Engagement, Spinach

When it comes to political engagement, I'm not a politician - I'm an engineer.

- Edward Snowden

source: Source: www.thenation.com

topic: Political, Engagement, Politician, Political Engagement

But the consequences of the whole-hearted and uncritical embrace of politics by Christians has been, IN EFFECT, to reduce Christian faith to a political ideology and various Christian denominations and para-church organizations as special interest groups. The political engagement of the various Christian groups is certainly legal, but in ways that are undoubtedly unintended, it has also been counterproductive of the ends to which they aspire.

- James Davison Hunter

topic: Christian, Organization, Political, Special Interest Groups, Christian Denominations

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

- Bill Gates

topic: Outside World, Political Engagement, Preventing

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

- Rashid al-Ghannushi

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Believe, Rights, Should Have, Political Engagement

I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.

- Rebecca Solnit

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Latin, America, Political, Political Engagement