History Quote by Michelle Wu

There`s a reason people pause their lives to engage in political activism and pressure their local political leaders. Because as a whole, even if…

— Rachel Maddow

Block by block, street by street, our city has the resources, the activism, and the ideas to meet these challenges if we act boldly…

— Michelle Wu

“What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all…

— Louis Brandeis

“As the state spreads it tentacles into every corner of life in the name of regulation, rationalization or economic development, people who wanted their…

— Cherian George

Politics is social work with power.

— Barbara Mikulski

Boston's justice system is in serious need of reform. Many of its policies and practices are antiquated, expensive, and don't really even make Boston…

— Shaun King

“The stakes involved in Washington policy debates are often so high-- whether we send our young men and women to war; whether we allow…

— Barack Obama

To be political actually means to care about your community.

— Sharon Gannon

Many times, politicians focus on this idea of how politics should be but not necessarily on the outcome. That ends up hurting people that…

— Ruben Gallego

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise…

— Angela Davis

Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the…

— Helen Caldicott

“Public respect for politicians has long been declining, even as the population at large has been seduced into responding to each new problem by…

— Kenneth Minogue