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In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there.

— Billy Bragg

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I was a youngster, I was brought up in a very political background on an estate in north London.

— Jim Crace

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

— Helen Gahagan

If I went into politics, it's because I grew up in a political atmosphere.

— Marion Marechal-Le Pen

In the '80s, Ronald Reagan inspired me to become politicized, because I grew up in that era when everything I cared about was under attack.

— Michael Franti

Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized.

— Dario Fo

I never really grew up being political or Labour. It was just a realisation that where you were born mattered. That how you spoke mattered... who you knew mattered.

— Jo Cox

✗Opposing Perspectives

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.

— Donald Tusk

I came into politics because of my opposition to what a Tory Government was doing to the community I grew up in.

— Nicola Sturgeon

I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.

— Taki Theodoracopulos

I'm a person who's always been interested in politics and thought it was a very noble occupation.

— Maggie Williams