8 quotes found
“With food still scarce,there was no longer a right to exist. You needed to earn your spot.”
“In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.”
“oo many people are profoundly illiterate in power (TED Talk: Why ordinary people need to understand power). As a result, its become ever easier for those who do understand how power operates in civ...”
“And that brings me to my definition of power, which is simply this: the capacity to make others do what you would have them do. It sounds menacing, doesn't it? We don't like to talk about power. We...”
“Alexis de Tocqueville warned that as the economy and government of America got bigger, citizens could become smaller: less practiced in the forms of everyday power, more dependent on vast distant s...”
“This is why it is so fundamental for us right now to grab hold of this idea of power and to democratize it. One of the things that is so profoundly exciting and challenging about this moment is tha...”
“Civic imagination and innovation and creativity are emerging from local ecosystems now and radiating outward, and this great innovation, this great wave of localism that's now arriving, and you see...”
“You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of someth...”
