Participation Quotes
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Our ancestors went through so much in a fight for us to vote. So I believe that we should engage in all civic participation. It's healthy engagement.
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I'm always having to check myself and make sure I'm not over singing in some ensemble thing that will render me unavailable for participation in the stuff where it really counts.
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Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. Stillness is dynamic. It is unconflicted movement, life in harmony with itself, skill in action. It can be experienced whenever there is total, uninhibited, unconflicted participation in the moment you are in—when you are wholeheartedly present with whatever you are doing.
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Any solution for the Iraqi problem cannot be reached without Arabs and Arab participation.
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Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.
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Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work.
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This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is.
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Scriptures make it clear that we can drink of God’s river now, here, in this life, even if it’s only in a measure. We don’t have to wait to drink until we’ve passed on into the glorified state. Jesus said this river would flow into us, through us, and out of us to others. “‘He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water’” (John 7:38). This glorious river of the Spirit is available to each of us, and the greater our thirst, the greater our participation in this river (see Matthew 5:6). We can drink of this river now! Its source is God.
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But he (Franklin Roosevelt) specifically prohibits any black participation from the Deep South, something which just infuriates people who'd been his supporters and who'd believed in him and resides that he is just shockingly abandoned the right of the people to rule. It's a pretty horrible story in that respect.
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Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.
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The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.
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Why is our own participation in scapegoating so difficult to perceive and the participation of others so easy? To us, our fears and prejudices never appear as such because they determine our vision of people we despise, we fear, and against whom we discriminate.
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Indeed, what says more: the few lines of a tightly written poem or a volume of analytical comments on it? The communicative ability of artifacts depends on how the work of negotiating meaning is distributed between reification and participation.
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In the Christian perspective, the love of God and of all other human beings invites us to share and enjoy not just the best of the human potential as it evolves, but participation in the divine life itself.
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Our missionary activities are only authentic insofar as they reflect participation in the mission of God.
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Participation is a hallmark of democratic governance.
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Participation is easily obtained with Latin chant.
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Puerto Rico's participation per capita in the armed forces is more than most states, yet they can't vote for their commander in chief.
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Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, all the time.
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German equality of rights is the prerequisite for any participation on Germany's part in international conventions and agreements.
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The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation.
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Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man ardently desiring the recovery of a sick relative; or surrounded by an enemy with escape apparently impossible; or, it might be, dying of hunger … since some inscrutable power had swept all game from forest and prairie. Others joined in the ceremony in the hope and firm belief that the Mystery …would grant them successes against the enemy and consequent eminence at home.
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Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption.
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Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.
