Political Issues Quotes - Page 3

• State violence cannot be defined simply as a political issue but also as a pedagogical issue that wages violence against the minds, desires, bodies and identities of young people as part of the reconfiguration of the social state into the punishing state.

  Henry Giroux

  Issues, People, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry - not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger.

  Tom Colicchio

  School, Lunch, Issues

  "Colicchio of Top Chef fights hunger" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. February 28, 2013.

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• Modern equalitarian societies whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making life happier. Happiness thus becomes the chief political issue -- in a sense, the only political issue -- and for that reason it can never be treated as an issue at all.

  Robert Warshow

  Equality, Issues, Political

  Robert Warshow (1962). “The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre & Other Aspects of Popular Culture”, p.97, Harvard University Press

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• I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

  Al Gore

  Issues, Political, Moral

  "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.

  Tony Campolo

  Religious, Strong, Speaks Out

  "Using the Church for Partisan Politics" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2007.

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• We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue.

  Mark Steyn

  Country, Issues, Political

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• If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.

  Madeleine Albright

  Country, Religious, Issues

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• I want to seduce the audience. If they can go along for a ride they wouldn't ordinarily take, or don't even know they're taking, then they might see highly charged political issues in a new and unexpected way. . . . The theatre is now so afraid to face its social demons that we've given that responsibility over to film. But it will always be harder to deal with certain issues in the theatre. The live event - being watched by people as we watch - makes it seem all the more dangerous.

  Paula Vogel

  Responsibility, Issues, People

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• We will not allow to become a political issue in this country the question of Asianisation.

  Bob Hawke

  Country, Issues, Political

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• My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.

  Charles Tupper

  Country, Party, Issues

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• Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

  Jeanne Shaheen

  Thinking, Issues, Political

  "College Poll: Religion, Morality Play Important Roles in Politics" by Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. April 14, 2006.

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• The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

  Al Gore

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Issues

  "Gore and UN panel are awarded Nobel Peace Prize". www.nytimes.com. October 12, 2007.

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• Policies that support families aren't political issues. They're personal. They're the causes I carry with me every single day.

  Michelle Obama

  Family, Issues, Support

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• It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Issues, People

  PBS: Frontline, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation.

  Joel Garreau

  Attitude, Issues, Political

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.11, Broadway Books

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• There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.

  J. William Fulbright

  Education, Country, Strong

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• I learn to be kind of balanced, because when I was a teenager and in my early 20s, I would get very involved with political issues and stuff like that. And now, I still have an opinion on everything, but I try to balance staying informed and having a positive attitude.

  Bianca Balti

  Attitude, Teenager, Issues

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• [Pope Francis] continued to focus on migrants. He visited the Greek island of Lesbos, which was the front line of the European migrant crisis. And a month later, he accepted a prestigious European Union prize, but he scolded Europe for its treatment of migrants. And in a speech echoing Martin Luther King, he said I have a dream of a Europe where being a migrant is not a crime. So, yeah, he showed he can be quite outspoken on political issues.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Dream, Kings, Europe

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The polling data shows not an unbelievable level of concern [on climate issue] but a general awareness of this problem. And now I think it's up to all sorts of people who really care about these things to continue on this new ground to try and make this the central political issue it needs to be.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Data, Issues

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• When you look at the consequences of climate change, at rainforest deforestation, at antibiotic resistance, these are not necessarily political issues, but rather issues that have the ability to threaten our species.

  Moby

  Issues, Political, Climate

  Source: thequietus.com

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