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

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

If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.

I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the privilege and responsibility of sharing with others less fortunate; and that service is the rent each of us pays for living - the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals.

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.

The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.

Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.