Paul Wellstone Quotes

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.

Regardless of who is elected president in 2016, we all still live together. Each of us has a different role to play, but we all have to hold the collective space for movement-building together. It's the only way we move forward.

We want to inspire people to work together, giving them hope that we can do something even if we cannot do everything.

I've found that when everyone rallies behind a cause, and when they learn their effort can contribute something bigger, they get engaged.

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

I think what's wonderful is that 'Community' has always had its voice, has always had it's vision, and that started from the very beginning.

Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.

I believe in cooperating for the common good.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

Our nation must come together to unite.

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

Earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

There is no one left to fix the nation, none but all of us.

What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.

The strongest tool we, as Americans, have is our ability to rally together and to find solutions with unity of purpose.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

No matter what political cause compels us, we should always feel as though it's being threatened. We should use these causes, whatever they are, to bring people together and get each other excited about our role, so we feel like we can't stop and won't stop.

It reassures me that when we get together as a community, when we put our effort together and our will to help others, we can achieve anything, and that is a lesson for us all.

We, alone, can't change the country. We should do it together.

Part of the role that I am fulfilling as Governor General is to highlight what communities can do together.

I believe society and football are all the time together, and will come to a new harmony.