It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.