There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

Without trying, I'm different.

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.

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines

What 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.

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

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