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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.
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A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
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We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
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