Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

I get very upset with all of the crowd seekers today, and people out there trying to get on TV. It ain't about you. It's about trying to make the world more just for everybody.

There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

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.

No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.