People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

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.

Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.