Without trying, I am different.- Paul Wellstone
Why do not we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.
When too many Americans do not 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.
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.
What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
We can remake the world daily.
We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.
The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.
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?
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.
The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
