Sixto Rodriguez Quotes

I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home.

I consider myself really lucky to be able to visit so many parts of the world, but after all of that, I love to come home. I appreciate my own space and the world I create for myself, my family and friends.

I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.

My mom still lives in Denver and some of my brothers are still in the area, so I still have strong ties there.

I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.

If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

I've got three little kids at home, and I'm trying to save this country from itself. I'm not here to play political power games, and I've had enough of people playing political power games, and this has just gone on too long.

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

Loneliness is not a problem in traditional societies. People spend their lives in or near the place where they were born, and they remain surrounded by relatives and childhood companions.

I live a very wonderful life centered in my home and community. We're real involved with the school.

I know my father believed and my mother believed in and supported the suffrage movement, and I remember my mother taking me to suffrage meetings held in the home of a Quaker family that lived not far from us.

I've lived in Colorado longer than anywhere else in my life. All four of our boys were born and raised here. All of our friends are here.

When things happen socially in our community, as artists, we've got the right to exercise our voices if we choose to, use our powers for good.

When I think of an activist, I think of a community organizer who is working every day and directly with community members and making it a job to take care of and speak up for a community in some way.

I think it's good to have your own selfish interests, whether it's liking chocolate ice cream or wanting a new car. It's just human nature is that. We have our own selfish interests. I think we have interests that go beyond our self to friends, to family first, maybe to friends, maybe to community. I think that's important to think about those spheres of influence that radiate from you.

Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.

As a society how do we do better and stop things like this happening time after time!! I’m so sorry to these families. Violence is not the answer people. Retaliation isn’t the solution as well.

I suppose I felt guilty not to be doing something more important, more political. So in a way I am trying to use the company for these other activities.

When it comes to political engagement, I'm not a politician - I'm an engineer.

I think that the more people who speak out, and say things and take stands on positions that will better our community, the better off each and every other individual artist or otherwise, will be.

Let us pray for peace, and let us bring it about, starting in our own homes.

[T]he "home" represents the most precious human treasures, that of encounter, that of relations among people, different in age, culture and history, but who live together and together help one another to grow. For this reason, the "home" is a crucial place in life, where life grows and can be fulfilled, because it is a place in which every person learns to receive love and to give love.

In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.