I need to work outside government, on my own.

I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do. The world wasn't so wonderful back then, with segregated rule in the South. But we were never hopeless and we never despaired because we had adults out there struggling with us, being there for us, and buffering us.

God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle. Help us to keep lighting our little candles until a mighty torch of justice sweeps our nation and the world.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.

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

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.