More from Paul Wellstone

  1. There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political act…
  2. What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
  3. The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.
  4. What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied…
  5. The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.
  6. When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that o…
  7. The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our d…
  8. Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers. Robert Kennedy once said, 'The future will not belong to those who are content with the pres…

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