A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

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.

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.

I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help.

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

We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.

Let all children come unto me.