Ability Quote by Paul Wellstone

“What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.” quote by Paul Wellstone — Download Open image

“What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.”

Paul Wellstone

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Let there be no distance between the words you say and the life you live.

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I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal

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Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.

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“Traditional progressive bread and butter economic issues are the heart of the solution. It's about ensuring decent jobs with a good wage. It's about ensuring a free public education in all the communities of America, whether they are in the shiny new affluent suburbs or the crumbling old schools of the older suburbs and cities. It's about ensuring a system…

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

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We all do better, when we all do better.

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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…

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Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength, nights, days, youth, age, and spend them in Thy service, 0 my crucified Master, Redeemer, God. Oh, let not these be mere words! Whom have I in heaven but Thee and there is none upon earth…

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