Politics Quotes

I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it`s important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what`s on their minds.

Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

My opinion is that politicians should be humble in the face of history.

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.

It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.

We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.

What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.

Every now and then, it might be a good idea for Congress to listen to the American people, not just large corporations.