Much of what I do now stems from my rage at segregation and discrimination. I can't stand to see children not able to do anything, anybody not able to do what they can do. The daily lessons of exclusion, having hand-me-down books in schools, of seeing ambulances turn away and not give health care for people lying in the streets who are migrant workers. Everything I do today stems from that segregated existence.

So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.

People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!