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.

I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We would have never thought about making history, we just thought: Here is our chance to get out our sense of rejection at this kind of racial discrimination. I don't know that there was a time that anybody growing up in the South wasn't enraged about being segregated and being discriminated against.

Let all children come unto me.

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

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

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people’s children, I’m doing that because I want to leave a community and a world that is better than the one I found.