We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. Jesus said that we should not be judged by the bark we wear but by the fruit that we bear. Jesus said that we must measure greatness by how we treat the least of these.

So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.

You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give energy if you're not on fire on the inside.

There is fear, police in fear, people if are in fear, children are fear, but fear and hate must not drive our agenda, love and hope and healing must drive the agenda.

It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.