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.

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

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

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.

We 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 need to be encouraging people to focus not just on individual wants but on serving the larger community.

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.