Political Quotes

The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

That went for the writers, too; they all had their own political leanings, and everybody had a voice. But the voices were mostly critical. It was social commentary, after all.

Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?

Some critics have commented that understanding the specific Brazilian political context of the novel is helpful for reading Quiet Creature. This may be true, but it’s not prerequisite for understanding it.

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

Both morally and practically, segregation is to me a basic injustice. Since I believe it to be so, I must attempt to remove it.

Political correctness has become a straightjacket.

Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.