What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousness. When people get on their hind legs and holler, the problem has not only entered the public consciousness -- it has also become a part of the public conscience. At that point, things in our democracy begin to hum.

Peace of mind is another way of saying that you've learned how to love, that you have come to appreciate the importance of giving love in order to be worthy of receiving it.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.