As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.

I dust [your photo] carefully every morning, for to do so gives me the pleasant feeling that I'm caressing you as in the old days. I even touch your nose with mine to recapture the electric current that used to flush through my blood whenever I did so.

Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity

The truth is we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free.