Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

As [Martin Luther] King said, it never cost anybody a dime to integrate the lunch counters. When you start talking about trying to deal with jobs and hunger and things that require investment, then that's really the tough stuff, because everybody wants to do right if it doesn't cost them anything.

Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.

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.

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.