Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.

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.

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.

You are in charge of your own attitude whatever others do or circumstances you face. The only person you can control is yourself...worry more about your attitude than your aptitude or lineage.

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

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

God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.