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

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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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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?

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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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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.

Paul Wellstone

The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better

Paul Wellstone

Paul Wellstone

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Born: July 21, 1944

Died: October 25, 2002 (aged 58)

Bio: Paul David Wellstone was 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.

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How the rural poor got power (1978)

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