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

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.

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

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

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

We all do better, when we all do better.

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