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

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

Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

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.

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.

So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.

[Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark."She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes].