Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was more…

I don't know, except that the only simple answer, I think, is that SCLC [Southern Christian Leadership Conference] had never really developed an organizing…

— Ella Baker

So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's…

— Stokely Carmichael

It transmitted because on the campuses, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was recruiting, was organizing. Students for a Democratic Society was founded at Michigan just…

— Bill Ayers

Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself,

— Julian Bond

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a…

— Yaya DaCosta

“When one person got involved, it took everybody else along. I went to jail first, but my entire family soon joined the Movement. One…

— Faith S. Holsaert

The only position for women in SNCC is prone.

— Stokely Carmichael

“Because widespread participation is so central to popular sovereignty, we can say that the less political participation there is in a society, the weaker…

— Edward S. Greenberg

In the final analysis it doesn't really matter what the political system is...We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.

— Cesar Chavez

The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.

— Frank Carlucci

Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place,…

— Frank Carlucci

“Thus individuals and communities of all faiths, or of none, enjoy two basic rights. One is the right to an autonomous social existence, free…

— Timothy Shah

In the 00s, it was often claimed that political apathy had replaced political participation. Membership of political parties and electoral turnout were both said…

— Owen Jones

[Conservatism:] Our revolutionary message... is that a self-disciplined people can create a political community in which an ordered liberty will promote both economic prosperity…

— Irving Kristol

“The political history of the twentieth century is the story of greater and more direct political participation. And success kept expanding democracy's scope. Whatever…

— Fareed Zakaria