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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“I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely distinct from ours. Their mutual jealousies, their balance of power, their complicated alliances, their forms and principles of government, are all foreign to us. They are nations of eternal war.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“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.”
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