Our government has to be held accountable for enforcing the law. Tamir Rice, the fact that they could exonerate that police person [who killed him], and Tamir's family was charged for the ambulance to take him [to the hospital]. It's inhumane.

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.

Don't be afraid of hard work.

Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

I'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can. You can't wait for some magic bullet or some magic politician or some magic anything to have that happen. You got to get out there and use your vote.