Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Author: Marian Wright Edelman
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.
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.
In politics there are no friends.
In politics there are no friends.
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
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 social fabric that threatens all Americans.
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 social fabric that threatens all Americans.
There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor hungry uneducated and without health coverage.
There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor hungry uneducated and without health coverage.
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
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 and what the American experiment was going to be about.
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 and what the American experiment was going to be about.
It was very clear to me in 1965 in Mississippi that as a lawyer I could get people into schools desegregate the schools but if they were kicked off the plantations – and if they didn't have food didn't have jobs didn't have health care didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights we were not going to have success.
It was very clear to me in 1965 in Mississippi that as a lawyer I could get people into schools desegregate the schools but if they were kicked off the plantations – and if they didn't have food didn't have jobs didn't have health care didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights we were not going to have success.