The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.

Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.

I need to work outside government, on my own.

People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!

It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.