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.

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

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.

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

...how can we live in the richest, most privileged country in the world, at the peak of its economic performance, and still hear the Republicans, and too many Democrats, that we cannot afford to provide a good education for every child, that we cannot afford to provide health security for all our citizens?

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

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