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

Service is what life is all about.

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.

I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.