There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.

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.

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

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.

I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.

I try to act out of faith.