Political Expression Quotes

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever that way. I don't remember the early rock 'n' rollers ever expressing any political views.

Dissent is the mark of freedom.

The best art is either political or revolutionary....Those things that are powerfully revolutionary are not always successful in the market place.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

The right to speak freely concerning functions of the Federal Government is a privilege of immunity of every citizen of the United States which, even before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, a State was powerless to curtail.

Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world.

I really think that music itself, being one of the greatest possible vehicles for mass communication, should be probed to its extremes, to see how effective it can actually become, which is one of the reasons why I became also interested in presenting political points of view.

When Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology, why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

We are exercising our constitutional right to be fresh.

Portland has a proud history of protest.

What I love so much about drag is that it has politics at its very core; drag performers aren't afraid to talk about politics in our community and the changes we need to see systemically in society.

I'm not a politician. I'm not running for office. I can say what I think.

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country - but at the root of it is this idea of telling the truth in public.

Democracy is the only true political expression of Christianity

The right to dissent is one of the great and cherished freedoms that we enjoy by reason of the excellent accident of our American births.

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

I was at St. Louis's very first tea party and stood across the mighty Mississippi on the Arch steps with a bunch of wide-eyed, virgin protesters who were just as shocked as I was to see the amount of people who had assembled.

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.

But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?

I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I see them as symbols, and I leave them to the symbol-minded.

Freedom of political speech will never justify violence.

People can gradually be brought to understand that an individual, even if she is a President's wife, may have independent views and must be allowed the expression of an opinion. But actual participation in the work of the Government, we are not yet able to accept.