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.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

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

The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves.