Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

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.

It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

Dr. King used to say, 'I was sitting in the back of the bus, but my mind was always up front.' Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do it. You aim high and you work very hard and now I think it's clear that you can be anything you want to.

Service is what life is all about.

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