Your children need your presence more than your presents.
When Blacks got the right to vote, white women got the right to sit on juries.
The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.