When we talk about the word 'socialism,' I think what it really means is just democratic participation in our economic dignity and our economic, social, and racial dignity. It is about direct representation and people actually having power and stake over their economic and social wellness, at the end of the day.
If the people want a government of their own they must do the work of making it their own.
Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith may be enacted in statutes, but it is only on paper unless it is put in force in the attitudes which human beings display to one another in all the incidents and relations of daily life.
He who builds on the people, builds on the mud
Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.
Be grateful for blessings, Don't ever change, keep your essence. The power is in the people and politics we address.
Self government means self support.
I think the reality is that there's a role for everybody to play in the work of social justice and that we have to organize everybody. That means that Silicon Valley has to be organized, the fashion industry has to be organized, the formerly incarcerated have to be organized, the teachers.
One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.
Change doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington
I am Chicago. I'm from Chicago. I bleed Chicago. I really think I can help the city. I think I can save the city.
Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
The problem facing our people here in America is bigger than all other personal or organizational differences. Therefore, as leaders, we must stop worrying about the threat that we seem to think we pose to each other's personal prestige, and concentrate our united efforts toward solving the unending hurt that is being done daily to our people here in America.
I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas.
If you feed a man a meal, you only feed him for a day-but if you teach a man to grow food, you feed him for a lifetime.
'The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman' is a reminder that people across the world are rebelling against norms and forging new paths for the most marginalized people in their own communities.
If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him. You take a look!
I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city.
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
I play to lift a city, and raise a banner.
In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
To strengthen the grassroots at the party - at the party unit, at the county level, at the precinct level, and then to help motivate and facilitate the local grassroots to get out there and turn out the vote and boost turn out. And then to help govern in places where we do hold city councils and state legislatures.
