No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

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.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend. It could be you. You never know when a little love, a little support will plant a small seed of hope.