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.

People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!

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

History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.

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.

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

Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.