Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.

There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another.

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

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.

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