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"Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia."
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"The purpose of employment is not to make money."

"Having a job is being busy."

"There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out."

"My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place."

"Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts."

"This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at."

"But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand."
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"I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines."

"Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision."

"There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power."

"I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people."

"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."

"Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people."

"Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine."

"What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves."

"The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society."
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