I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.

The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

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

You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.

You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are.

The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.

Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral compass and redefine how we measure success.