We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.

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.

As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God for guidance and strength and backward to draw on the values and legacies of our families, ancestors, and communities.

We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.

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

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.