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

  Paul Wellstone

  Children, Real, Our Children

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

  Paul Wellstone

  Party, Class, People

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• ...how can we live in the richest, most privileged country in the world, at the peak of its economic performance, and still hear the Republicans, and too many Democrats, that we cannot afford to provide a good education for every child, that we cannot afford to provide health security for all our citizens?

  Paul Wellstone

  Country, Children, Citizens

  Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.7, Random House

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• 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.

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  Giving, Full Potential, Excess

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• Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.

  Paul Wellstone

  Money, Games, People

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• We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice.

  Paul Wellstone

  Country, Moving, Justice

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• 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.

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  Dream, Simple, Beloved Community

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• Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.

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  Quality, Economy, Above And Beyond

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• The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

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  Change, People, Political

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• When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

  Paul Wellstone

  Disappointment, Believe, Frustration

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

  Paul Wellstone

  Democracies Have, Ideas, 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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  Successful, People, Vision

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

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  Party, Sound, Want

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• Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

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  Dream, Past, Mirrors

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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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  Power, Tyrants, Political

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

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  Moving, Mean, Politics

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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.

  Paul Wellstone

  Responsibility, Community, Political

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• Without trying, I'm different.

  Paul Wellstone

  Trying, Different

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

  Paul Wellstone

  Faith, Community, Decision

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• Let there be no distance between the words you say and the life you live.

  Paul Wellstone

  Distance, Words You Say

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• I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines

  Paul Wellstone

  Thinking, Cynical, Sidelines

  Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.8, Random House

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• We can remake the world daily.

  Paul Wellstone

  Attitude, World, Remakes

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• Politics is not about power.

  Paul Wellstone

  Power

  "Honoring Paul Wellstone's Legacy: Fighting Like Hell for Health Care Reform" by Mike Elk, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2009.

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

  Paul Wellstone

  Hard Work, Passionate, Hard

  "Al Franken's Defiant, Unapologetic Resignation Speech, Annotated" by Amber Phillips, www.washingtonpost.com. December 07, 2017.

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

  Paul Wellstone

  Country, Fighting, Democracy

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