It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is no respite or escape from your badge of color.

Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.

[Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark."She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes].

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

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.

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