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

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.

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

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

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

We all do better, when we all do better.

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.