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

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

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.

Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.

The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at night. We're the richest nation on Earth, with the highest number of imprisoned people in the world. Our drug addictions and child poverty are among the highest in the industrialized world. So don't ever confuse wealth or fame with character.

[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.