Service is the rent we pay for living.

Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend. It could be you. You never know when a little love, a little support will plant a small seed of hope.

History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.

There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.

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

I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We would have never thought about making history, we just thought: Here is our chance to get out our sense of rejection at this kind of racial discrimination. I don't know that there was a time that anybody growing up in the South wasn't enraged about being segregated and being discriminated against.

Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.