Contemplative-practice Quote by Kyle Parton

“It may be necessary to make compromises in everyday politics, but we cannot compromise with our conscience.”

— Ludwig Erhard

“we must guard against a tendency to require monolithic thought as imposed by political correctness.”

— Ben Carson

We have to end political gerrymandering in this country. We have to end it.

— Michael Bennet

Fighting gerrymandering is one thing. The other thing is insuring we have the right candidates for the people and not the right candidates for…

— Ilhan Omar

“Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to…

— Veronica Roth

“The commitment to enlarged thought is morally and politically significant in that it fosters the ‘ability to think without rules’, to cultivate judgement and…

— Patrick Hayden

“Contemplatives are not likely to become gamblers, or procurers, or drunkards; they do not as a rule preach intolerance, or make war; do not…

— Aldous Huxley

“the gerrymandering of 2010 had created what Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker called a “historical oddity.” Political extremists now had no incentive to…

— Jane Mayer

“There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing; and you don't believe in it yourselves when…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“There must be a complete interrogation of the thinking that has allowed such practices to operate without challenge...”

— Pedro Noguera

Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government,…

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

What's historically been referred to as 'gerrymandering' can more aptly be labeled an incumbent protection program.

— Letitia James