No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.

[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.

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 feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.

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

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.

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