Paul Wellstone

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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 a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?
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.
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.
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.
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.
The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.
Politics isn't about big money or power games it's about the improvement of people's lives.
Politics is not about power.
We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

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