We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.

I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.

Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.

[Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark."She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes].

Luckily, I had incredible parents who, when they saw a problem, didn't say, "Why doesn't somebody do something?" They would say, "Why don't we do something?".