Sublime

José Celso Barbosa, president of the Republican Party in Puerto Rico.

Ortega held the process to be the driving force of history. The “reciprocal action between the masses and select minorities,” he wrote, “is the fundamental fact of every society and the agent of its evolution for good or evil.” Ortega’s masses we now call the public. By “select minorities” he meant the admirable few: elites who, at their best, lavi

Congressman Vito Marcantonio

Official citizens only do capital-P Politics once every few years; Citizens do small-p politics pretty much every day. As Citizens, we are not our votes: we are our ideas, our energy, our resources.

“Politics is the ability to use any situation to advance your own status,”

Polybius on the politics of Rome