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

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.

You can't be what you can't see.

Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

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.

We all need to get out of our safety zones too. In addition to voting, we need to embarrass people who don't do the right thing. It's going to take citizen action.