You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

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.

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

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.