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

The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.

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

I 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 not have staying power.

We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice.

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

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.