Paul Wellstone
Paul Wellstone
Paul David Wellstonewas an American academic and politician who represented Minnesota in the United States Senate from 1991 until he was killed in a plane crash in Eveleth, Minnesota in 2002. A member of the Democratic Farmer-Labor Party, Wellstone was a leading spokesman for the progressive wing of the national Democratic Party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 July 1944
CountryUnited States of America
freedom fighting liberty
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.
integrity inspiration character
Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.
winning people power-politics
Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.
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The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
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Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.
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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.
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The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
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Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
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If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?
attitude world remakes
We can remake the world daily.
power
Politics is not about power.
successful self purpose
Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.
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There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.
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Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.