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

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

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

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!

The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?

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

Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.