Service is what life is all about.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.

Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.

Dr. King used to say, 'I was sitting in the back of the bus, but my mind was always up front.' Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do it. You aim high and you work very hard and now I think it's clear that you can be anything you want to.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

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