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    Paul Wellstone

    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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    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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    Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

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    ...how can we live in the richest, most privileged country in the world, at the peak of its economic performance, and still hear the Republicans, and too many Democrats, that we cannot afford to provide a good education for every child, that we cannot afford to provide health security for all our citizens?

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    I dare to imagine a country where every child I hold in my hands, are all God's children, regardless of the color of their skin, regardless of whether they're boy or girl, regardless of religion, regardless of rich or poor, that every child I hold in my hands, will have the same chance to reach her full potential or his full potential. That is the goodness of our country. That is the essence of the American dream.

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    I do believe that there's going to be a pretty strong consensus for a very strong .. censure resolution.

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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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    If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

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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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    I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

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    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.

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    I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines

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    It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to 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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    Let there be no distance between the words you say and the life you live.

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    Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

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    Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

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    Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the quality of human life while at the same time respecting the natural environment which sustains it: 'Not a heaven on earth but a better earth on earth.' This is not at all a timid agenda, far from it. The work ahead of us is enormous!

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    Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

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    Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.

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    Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.

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    Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives.

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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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    Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers

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    Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

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    Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.

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    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.

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    The best kind of politics is when you help people become their own best selves.

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    The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.

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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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    The future belongs to those who are passionate and work hard.

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    The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better

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    The future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines. The future will not belong to the cynics. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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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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    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 only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

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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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    The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.

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    There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.

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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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    There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

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    There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political activists. This is a simple, irreducible, indisputable aspiration. It is the 'dream of justice' for a beloved community, in which the level of terror in people's lives is sharply reduced or maybe eliminated. It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

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    We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

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    We can remake the world daily.

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    We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice.

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    We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country.

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    We need a new kind of citizenship, so that we can see citizens as themselves earning the rank of patriot because of their involvement in their community affairs....We as a society need to be encouraging people to focus not just on individual wants but on serving the larger community.

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    We're not going to have real security until we invest in our children.

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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.