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.
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.
If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?
Politics is not about money.
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.
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.
Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
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.
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?
Politics is not about power.
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.
Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
We can remake the world daily.
Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.