Service is the rent we pay for living.

I get very upset with all of the crowd seekers today, and people out there trying to get on TV. It ain't about you. It's about trying to make the world more just for everybody.

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

Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up.

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

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.

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