Paul Wellstone Quotes
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What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
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I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.
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It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.
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We all do better when we all do better.
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I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.
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I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
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There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
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As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.
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What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
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Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.
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Politics is not about power.
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I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.
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Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.
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Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.
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I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.
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I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.
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The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
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Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.