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To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything... →
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.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
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.
Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and... →
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.
A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different... →
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform... →