It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.

It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.