You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.

It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list.

It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans and the very dream that is America.

If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.

The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.