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.

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

You have to have a fundamental change in the culture of policing, and who is the police person. How do they change? How do you learn from England and the other places, or Australia? In England, they don't carry guns on the whole. It's a different kind of mentality that does not demonize, and it's justified on race and income and class.

Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in other people.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.