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

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

We all do better, when we all do better.

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the quality of human life while at the same time respecting the natural environment which sustains it: 'Not a heaven on earth but a better earth on earth.' This is not at all a timid agenda, far from it. The work ahead of us is enormous!

We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country.

The future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines. The future will not belong to the cynics. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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.