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We've organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of knowing, multiple ways of organizing, the society loses one of its deepest organizational principles.

Organizing gives workers the power to lift themselves out of poverty and build a better future.

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.

Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.

We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies.

You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.

You can't build any kind of organization if you're not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.

People have a fundamental right to organize. It's rooted very much in the Constitution and people's right to free association.