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

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.

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

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.

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.