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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“This teaching is not practical in the sense in which the New Testament is. It is not always sound sense in practice. The Brahman never proposes courageously to assault evil, but patiently to starve it out. His active faculties are paralyzed by the idea of caste, of impassable limits of destiny and the tyranny of time.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that we have begun to do psychologically what government has been incapable of doing programmatically. We bring the numbers down—not by solving the problem, but by deciding it’s their own damn fault.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)