“Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the bureaucratic ethos or the liberal practicality of the moral scatter. Know that many personal troubles cannot be solved merely as troubles, but must be understood in terms of public issues and in terms of the problems of history making.” KnowsGivingProblemPoliticalTermAcceptingMoralIssuesTroubleGiving UpUnderstoodNot Giving UpAutonomyEthosPracticalityDo Not Give UpHistory Making Book:C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings Source: C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings
“Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.” WantGivingTwoPoliticalSocialProcessStepsGiving UpSocial ChangeSteps Forward Author:Hal Sparks
“How well u treat the wicked people, they do nto give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.” PeopleGivingWellsMadePoliticalHurtPleasureDrinkGiving UpTreatsPoisonWickedMilkWickednessSerpentHurting OthersDrink Milk Author:Chanakya
“Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear; a certain amount rational, an enormous amount irrational. All political cruelties stem from that overwhelming fear. To push back the threatening forces, to offer primitive sacrifices, to give up some in the hope that others will be savedthat is the power struggle. That is the outsidedness of the poor, the feeble, the infantile. That is the outsidedness of Jews. That is the outsidedness of blacks. That is the outsidedness of women.” GivingEndsPainPoliticalDesireCertainPoliticsForceFearPoorStruggleSacrificeAmountOffersGiving UpJewEnormousDiscriminationRationalCrueltyOverwhelmingPrimitiveIrrationalStemThreateningInfantilePower Struggle Author:Vivian Gornick
“Statesmen exhibit five key commitments: 1) A commitment to principles above politics; 2) An ability to compromise without abandoning principle; 3) A commitment to truth over spin; 4) A commitment to courage over cowardice; and 5) A commitment, or willingness, to give up power.” GivingPoliticalPoliticsTermAbilityPrinciplesFiveKeysGiving UpCommitmentCompromiseWillingnessCowardiceStatesmenExhibitsTerm Limits Author:Tom Coburn
“If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men.” IfsMenGivingPoliticalCareersSuccessfulBalanceGiving UpMissions Author:Dalia Grybauskaite
“Never give in and never give up.” GivingPoliticalGiving UpNot Giving UpNever Giving UpNever Give Up On SomethingNever Give InI Never Give Up Author:Hubert H. Humphrey
“We need a very progressive and strong agenda to bring people into the political process because I worry very much about the future of the American democracy where so many people are giving up.” PeopleNeedsGivingPoliticalStrongProcessWorryDemocracyGiving UpAgendasProgressiveAmerican Democracy Author:Bernie Sanders
“The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.” PeopleGivingLooksChildrenMadeAblePoliticalProcessRightsImpossibleSacrificeAchieveMovementWillingGiving UpOrdinaryOur ChildrenCivil RightsBotherYour ChildrenOur FutureOrdinary PeopleYour FutureCivil Rights Movement Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground.” PeopleGivingLittlesPoliticalOrderBitsCommonGiving UpLittle BitConsensusCommon GroundTurf Author:Hillary Clinton
“I truly believe —particularly in this political climate—I have to make my contribution a hopeful one. I can’t see the world any other way. To whom much is given, much is expected. You can’t come to me and expect that I’m going to be giving up on people, or on our society.” PeopleWorldGivingBelievePoliticalGiving UpHopeful Author:Measha Brueggergosman
“I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.” PeopleThinkingGivingWellsCountryMightPoliticalPoliticsGiving UpLike MeCandidatesDon't Like Me Author:William Howard Taft
“If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of mankind; indeed, this seems actually to be a psychological and sociological law: the power of some needs the folly of others. It is not that certain human capacities, intellectual capacities for instance, become stunted of destroyed, but rather that the upsurge of power makes such an overwhelming impression that men are deprived of their independent judgment, and...give up trying to assess the new state of affairs for themselves.” IfsMenNeedsGivingTryingHumansLooksStatesSeemsLawPoliticalCertainReligiousMankindProduceGiving UpJudgmentIntellectualCapacityIndependentAffairViolentImpressionPsychologicalDestroyedInstanceFollyOverwhelmingDisplayDeprivedOutburstSociologicalHuman Capacity Book:Letters Papers from Prison Source: Letters Papers from Prison