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

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.

In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a sense that we could choose things. We've let down the generations coming behind us and we are trying to re- establish that connection.