Mimi Kennedy Quotes

The Soviet Union was a one-party state. In such states, enemies of the party become enemies of the state, and the state can punish with full weight of prosecution.

You need someone in your life to give you advice without yelling at you.

My passion stems from seeking world peace and finding how we can live together creatively rather than violently.

Don Siegelman should be a star in the Democratic Party. Instead, he’s a former elected official sentenced to prison by a right-wing judge in Alabama.

The stories we can tell are those that happen to us; we meet, work, live, laugh, love, demonstrate, strive in community.

In El Salvador, when neighbors were disappeared, tortured or killed, people doubted their own knowledge of the victims, and worried there must have been some secret guilt involved to deserve such punishment! That’s how political terror succeeds.

For many years, I didn’t even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I’ve always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that’s made all the difference.

Though pundits and politicians, weary of the story, are happy to omit facts about voting systems and their private contractors running our public elections, such omissions impair voters and democracy itself.

Across the nation, the election protection movement attracts ordinary citizens who educate their neighbors about their voting systems and the private companies that built and run them.

I’m old enough to remember when ‘Law and Order’ was once the Republican campaign slogan.

For-profit does not belong in a taxpayer-funded health system. For-profit means cutting medical services to patients, and payments to providers, to preserve profits.

I’ve always loved New York City and the idea of a cultural exchange: the immigrants coming to America.

I think especially older people, and I count myself one, in the business – people get to know who you really are. So there comes a time when you can’t just go in and audition without everybody knowing exactly how you’ve brought up your kids, what you said at the meeting, what kind of food you cook.

I think you can laugh the hardest when you get closest to something real.

The more pain that’s referenced or implied, the deeper the laugh can be because the laughter heals the pain. So you’ve got to have the pain, and then you have the laugh.

We have this time to meet and do something, or just be together, and then we lose it and move to another kind of time, another kind of being, I guess. Those left behind must mourn, remember, and live on as we know.

Since the time of Richard Nixon, there has been a strange lack of will in the media to identify the real cause for Americans’ anger at politicians who fall, publicly and spectacularly.

Election victories increasingly depend on factors other than who votes, or tries to vote, and for whom. In 2000, the presidency was awarded by the Supreme Court, pre-empting the count of thousands of Florida votes.

I have no idea how things work in the life beyond what we know with our senses.

Some of us only meet in the most fleeting moments; some of us never meet, but still hear about one another and therefore cherish what we know from what we’ve heard, and mourn the loss, even though we’re spared what the close-loved ones must endure – the ongoing pain of an empty place in the heart for the rest of life.

Friction is necessary for motion, labor necessary for birth.

From casting to counting, our votes must be better protected in all voting systems.

Change is terrifying for people who feel immune to it by virtue of status, divine appointment, or imagined irreplaceability.

All humans change. Development is our life. Transition, in labor, is the most painful time. Without change, there’s no growth.

Democracy is not theater – it determines life and death!