Active Citizens (Greek: Ενεργοί Πολίτες) is a left-wing political party in Greece and member of the Coalition of the Radical Left political coalition. It was founded in 2002. Its most prominent delegate is Manolis Glezos, former member of the Hellenic Parliament under the flag of United Democratic Left.
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“The sense of an entailed disadvantage—the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centred, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)