The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.
From Paul Wellstone
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.
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.
What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.
Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.
Politics is not about power.
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.
The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.
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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