We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.

I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.