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
faith community decision
What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
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.
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.
people focus community
We need a new kind of citizenship, so that we can see citizens as themselves earning the rank of patriot because of their involvement in their community affairs....We as a society need to be encouraging people to focus not just on individual wants but on serving the larger community.
committed means politics
We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
strong believe resolution
I do believe that there's going to be a pretty strong consensus for a very strong .. censure resolution.
organization political advice
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.
talking people auditors
I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.
successful self purpose
Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.
money games people
Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
party years two
The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.
I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal
trying different
Without trying, I'm different.
country moving justice
We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice.