Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.

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

It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.