"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."

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

"The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children."

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

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

"You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be."

"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."

"Service is what life is all about."

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

"Education is a precondition to survival in America today."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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 foresee."

"Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?"

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

"You really can change the world if you care enough."

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

"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."

"No person has the right to rain on your dreams."

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

"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."

"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."