To be a human being is to suffer. But it's the unnecessary suffering, it's the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stopped.

It's the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.

The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.

Every politician - FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama - they're all conservative by nature. They are part of the big thing and they're moving in a very constrained world.

I would say when I went to Michigan. It started. I got very very involved in civil rights in Ann Harbor right away. Picketing, something I never even knew existed.

You can be disappointed but only if you thought [Barack Obama] was something that he said he wasn't!

Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.