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Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.
Paul Wellstone
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The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?
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The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
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There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.
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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 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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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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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.
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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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I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.
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The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.
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Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
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Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
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