Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
June Jordan
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying... →
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as... →
I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was... →
Neil Jordan
Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.
F. Sionil Jose
What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed... →
Jon Bon Jovi
George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly... →
Graham Joyce
I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.
Tony Judt
I was born in 1948, so I'm a '60s kid, and in the '60s everyone talked all the time, endlessly, about socialism versus capitalism, about... →
Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political... →