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

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

If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.