The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction

[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.

Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.

The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

Our government has to be held accountable for enforcing the law. Tamir Rice, the fact that they could exonerate that police person [who killed him], and Tamir's family was charged for the ambulance to take him [to the hospital]. It's inhumane.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.