I try to act out of faith.

No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.

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

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.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help.

We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.