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.

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.

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

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

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers

Politics is not about power.

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