There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

All of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.

To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.

Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.