None of the candidates are ever perfect, ok? Then you have to get them in there and you have to hold them accountable. You have to make noises.

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

You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are.

I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We would have never thought about making history, we just thought: Here is our chance to get out our sense of rejection at this kind of racial discrimination. I don't know that there was a time that anybody growing up in the South wasn't enraged about being segregated and being discriminated against.

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

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

There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.