We all do better, when we all do better.

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

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

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

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

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.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.