Paul WellstoneWe all do better, when we all do better. ✨ Sheet Metal Workers Speech. www.wellstone.org. September 1999.371Life
Paul WellstoneWe can remake the world daily.372Truth
Paul WellstoneSuccessful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.375Death
Paul WellstoneA 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 … ▶342HumanityLovePolitics
Paul WellstonePolitics is not about power. ✨ Honoring Paul Wellstone's Legacy: Fighting Like Hell for Health Care Reform by Mike Elk, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2009.343Politics
Paul WellstoneSuccessful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.334Humanity
Paul WellstoneThe first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.301HumanityLifeReading
Paul WellstoneOur 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 resp… ▶334HumanityLifePolitics
Paul WellstonePolitics 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. ✨ Honor… ▶357HumanityPolitics
Paul WellstoneWhat makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.291Hope
Paul WellstoneEducation and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.335Humanity
Paul WellstoneI 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 ac… ▶357LifeTime
Paul WellstoneAs free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.291HumanityPolitics
Paul WellstoneThe 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.281HopeTime
Paul WellstonePolitics 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.3710HumanityPolitics
Paul WellstoneI 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 no… ▶3710PoliticsThought
Paul WellstoneWhen too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and… ▶304Hope
Paul WellstoneI don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.359HumanityPoliticsThought
Paul WellstoneWe can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.349Politics
Paul WellstoneI 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.317HumanityPolitics
Paul WellstoneAbove and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.285Death
Paul WellstoneThere are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. ✨ Paul Wellst… ▶242DeathLovePolitics
Paul WellstoneOur politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.253HopeLifePolitics
Paul WellstoneThe 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 possi… ▶243HumanityThought
Paul WellstoneSometimes, the only realists are the dreamers ✨ Paul Wellstone (2001). The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda, p.8, Random House287LoveTime
Paul WellstonePolitics 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 … ▶254HopePolitics
Paul WellstoneIt 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… ▶3110PoliticsTime
Paul WellstoneWe 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… ▶232Humanity
Paul WellstoneWhat the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.233Politics
Paul WellstoneWithout trying, I'm different.277Reflection
