"I decided to become a community organizer..." - Quote by Barack Obama
I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.
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“Insist that the first question each of us asks isn't "What's good for me?" but "What's good for the country my children will inherit?”
“We can't in any way criticize or at least indict or impeach administration [of Democratic presidents] for doing what they did.”
“People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives.”
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“If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?”
“I don't know if I want to record together again. I go off and on it... In the old days, when we needed an album, Paul and I got together and produced enough songs for it. Nowadays, there's three of us writing prolifically and trying to fit it all into one album.”
“Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.”
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“Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children the values and the virtues handed down to us by our families, to have the courage to defend those values and the willingess to sacrifice for them. Let us pledge to restore, in our time, the American spirit of voluntary service, of cooperation, of private and community initiative, a spirit that flows like a deep and mighty river through the history of our nation.”
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream.”
“A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.”