Paul Wellstone Quotes About Justice
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We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice.
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Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
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There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political activists. This is a simple, irreducible, indisputable aspiration. It is the 'dream of justice' for a beloved community, in which the level of terror in people's lives is sharply reduced or maybe eliminated. 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.
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Paul Wellstone
- Born: July 21, 1944
- Died: October 25, 2002
- Occupation: Former United States Senator
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