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A powerful person is one who draws energy into the group. The ability to
channel power depends on personal integrity, courage, and
wholeness.
--Starhawk
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His sense of politics was physical, in that he knew you had to throw yourself
out there among the people again and again, to be directly heard and seen
and touched and sort of handled and pushed around by them. Because the
malaise in the country is people feeling isolated and alone in a disappearance
of any large, embracing sense of community, feeling decisions about their lives
are being made by faceless strangers and processes beyond their control. So
there's a huge hunger to connect to an actual physical
presence -- a tribal
leader, rea1ly, with that kind of personal relationship between him and the
people -- who can give them a sense of meaning and value as a community
again. They need to feel that he has almost recklessly, with a willingness to
take extraordinary risks, given himself over completely to
that, and to what he believes in, which answers what they believe in. It's something almost
primitive, mystic.
-- John Tunney on Robert Kennedy
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