You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

Service is what life is all about.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

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

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.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.