If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it. Peter McWilliams
But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered. Barney Frank
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship. Carl Sagan
And if we are the ones not actively involved in electing those godly men and women and if people aren't involved in helping godly men in getting elected than we're going to have a nation of secular laws. That's not what our founding fathers intended and that's certainly isn't what God intended. Katherine Harris
I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life. Kay Redfield Jamison
Not all women, in fact, very few, have had the good fortune to live and work among women and men actively involved in the feminist movement. Many of us live in circumstances and environments where we must engage in feminist struggle alone, with only occasional support and affirmation. Bell hooks