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> [What's much harder is taking on people in your own community.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-shapiro/what-s-much-harder-is-taking-on-people-in-your-own-community/)

[Jonathan Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-shapiro/)

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## More by Jonathan Shapiro

> [Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-shapiro/sometimes-i-have-to-compromise-my-views-but-i-never-compromise-on/)

[Jonathan Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-shapiro/)

> [Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-shapiro/primarily-i-m-a-social-commentator-rather-than-someone-who-s-out-to/)

[Jonathan Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-shapiro/)

> [You can't undo a deportation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-shapiro/you-can-t-undo-a-deportation/)

[Jonathan Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-shapiro/)

> [It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-shapiro/it-s-to-be-a-person-who-s-able-to-shoot-little-arrows-into-sacred/)

[Jonathan Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-shapiro/)

> [I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-shapiro/i-would-think-a-sense-of-the-absurd-is-more-important-for-a-political/)

[Jonathan Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-shapiro/)

> [Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-shapiro/even-people-that-i-agree-with-can-do-something-that-would-be-a-target/)

[Jonathan Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-shapiro/)

> [Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-shapiro/mandela-once-phoned-me-out-of-the-blue-while-he-was-still-president/)

[Jonathan Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-shapiro/)

> [I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-shapiro/i-try-not-to-change-my-political-point-of-view-from-paper-to-paper/)

[Jonathan Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-shapiro/)

> [We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-shapiro/we-do-and-there-is-a-law-in-the-united-states-the-torture-convention/)

[Jonathan Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-shapiro/)

> [I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-shapiro/i-was-very-lucky-all-three-newspapers-approached-me-and-asked-me-to/)

[Jonathan Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-shapiro/)

> [Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-shapiro/certainly-in-cartooning-i-m-given-huge-free-rein-at-the-moment/)

[Jonathan Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-shapiro/)

> [On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-shapiro/on-one-occasion-in-1987-the-security-police-came-looking-for-me/)

[Jonathan Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-shapiro/)

> [There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-shapiro/there-was-a-teacher-who-recognized-that-i-was-interested-in/)

[Jonathan Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-shapiro/)

> [I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-shapiro/i-see-the-cartoonist-as-contributing-to-the-content-being-critical/)

[Jonathan Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-shapiro/)

> [I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-shapiro/i-normally-keep-a-series-of-draft-in-a-catalogue-type-of-book-in/)

[Jonathan Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-shapiro/)

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