Quote by Paul Wellstone
What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith

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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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. – Paul Wellstone

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Politics
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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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Leadership
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Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people… No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings. – Thomas Becket

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Faith

The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith. – Randall Terry

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Faith

I dont know what religious people do. I kind of wished Id been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma. – Marcia Wallace

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Faith

Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. – Saint Augustine

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Faith

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Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion. – Ralph W. Sockman

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There are two freedoms – the false, where a man is free to do what he likes the true, where he is free to do what he ought. – Charles Kingsley

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Freedom

We must return to nature and natures god. – Luther Burbank

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environmental

Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits. – Thomas Hardy

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Integrity