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

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.

The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction

I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.