There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.

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

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

We're not going to have real security until we invest in our children.

There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political activists. This is a simple, irreducible, indisputable aspiration. It is the 'dream of justice' for a beloved community, in which the level of terror in people's lives is sharply reduced or maybe eliminated. It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

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

The future belongs to those who are passionate and work hard.