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 crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.

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

There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.

Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.

God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle. Help us to keep lighting our little candles until a mighty torch of justice sweeps our nation and the world.

Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.