A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
From Paul Wellstone
I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.
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.
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.
We all do better when we all do better.
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.
If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.
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