 Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for. |
| No person has the right to rain on your dreams. |
| 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. |
| No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Service is what life is all about. |
| You really can change the world if you care enough. |
| If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much. |
| We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem. |
| 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. |
| Education is a precondition to survival in America today. |
| The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children. |
| 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. |
| Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
