Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.

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

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.

When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, Let all children come unto me.

I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We would have never thought about making history, we just thought: Here is our chance to get out our sense of rejection at this kind of racial discrimination. I don't know that there was a time that anybody growing up in the South wasn't enraged about being segregated and being discriminated against.