"Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine."
-Paul Wellstone
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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.“
-Paul Wellstone
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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."
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"Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers."
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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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"I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment."
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"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."
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-Vladimir Lenin
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"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other."
-Eric Hoffer
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"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
-John Lennon
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
-Edmund Burke
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
-Sigmund Freud
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