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.

The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.

This act will leave a moral blot on his presidency

Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.

Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.

The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.