Never separate the life you lead from the words you speak.

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.

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.

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 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.

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives