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" The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy. "
Paul Wellstone
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" Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities. "
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" I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines. "
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" The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society. "
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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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" A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail. "
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" If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students? "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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