Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.
This act will leave a moral blot on his presidency.
Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend. It could be you. You never know when a little love, a little support will plant a small seed of hope.
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.
Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.
Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people’s children.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
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 said, Let all children come unto me.
You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.