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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. – Paul Wellstone

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Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities. – Paul Wellstone

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Education
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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. – Paul Wellstone

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Faith
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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. – Paul Wellstone

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We need leadership, and we need it now. – Byron Dorgan

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All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state. – W. H. Auden

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Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses. – Jose Serrano

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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it. – Omar N. Bradley

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Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece. – Author Unknown

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. – Carl Sandburg

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For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today? And whenever the answer has been No for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. – Steve Jobs

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If a man would move the world, he must first move himself. – Socrates

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