We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

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

You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

The persistent and growing high level of child poverty reflects conscious and misguided choices, … How can the Bush Administration and Congress give enormous tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans who have benefited most from...

It’s everywhere. Guns and violence are in every nook and cranny of America. Many children can get a gun quicker than they can get a book out of the library. That puts us all at...

You just think of them playing baseball and basketball, anything fun, not waiting for someone to come out and attack them.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back — but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

People who don’t vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

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

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

Too many people ask ‘How can I find myself,’ when they should ask, ‘How can I lose myself in service to others’.

Don’t feel entitled to anything you didn’t sweat and struggle for.

I’m doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I’m really grateful to have something that I’m passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.

It’s time for greatness — not for greed. It’s a time for idealism — not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

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

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

You really can change the world if you care enough

Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of...

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot...

The planned execution of Mr. Williams will leave a permanent scar on the conscience of the state of Georgia, on your administration and on our nation.

Hurricane Katrina ripped the mask off of the poverty and festering racism and what I call the ‘new slavery,’ the pipeline to prison so many youth experience. Yet our national attention span is abysmally short....

If we think we have ours and don’t owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying...

My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

Service is what life is all about.

So often we dwell on the things that seem impossible rather than on the things that are possible. So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for...

If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues,...

We have a huge black middle class. But they have to remember to look back and bring others along.

If we don’t stand up for children, then we don’t stand for much.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

This nation has squandered away four years and billions of dollars in education funding. Our children have been tested to death, forced to regurgitate, and at the end of the day they haven’t learned to...

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...

we in this wealthy nation are going to see that every child has a place to call home, enough to eat, a place to sleep and get them all ready for school to get an...

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Bill was passionate, vocal and risk-taking about the enduring values, peace and justice.

When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn’t say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn’t have a mental or physical handicap. He...

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.

This historic investment in children’s health is a major victory for America’s children and working families,

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

Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.