The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better

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

Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.

I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

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

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.