People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

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

It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.