Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.
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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.Paul Wellstone
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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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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I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.
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cessation from what seems to be a slide toward the bombing of a broader array of non-military targets, a potential oil embargo directed at other countries -- toward deeper involvement in a wider war -- that I believe we will come to regret.
Paul Wellstone
Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
Paul Wellstone
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