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

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

If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.

It is so important not to let ourselves off the hook or to become apathetic or cynical by telling ourselves that nothing works or makes a difference. Every day, light your small candle.... The inaction and actions of many human beings over a long time contributed to the crises our children face, and it is the action and struggle of many human beings over time that will solve them-with God's help. So every day, light your small candle.

The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.

I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help.

Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.