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
dream simple beloved-community
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.
power
Politics is not about power.
attitude world remakes
We can remake the world daily.
people left improving
Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives.
children real our-children
We're not going to have real security until we invest in our children.
power tyrants political
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.
disappointment believe frustration
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.
teacher children teaching
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.
responsibility community political
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.
giving excess politics
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.
teacher teaching commitment
If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?
country children citizens
...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?
successful people vision
Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.
ideas democracies-have hypocrisy
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.