Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.

Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and were especially hopeful that he might move the country in a new direction on civil rights.

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.