It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.

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

Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.

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

I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.

It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.

Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.