Education Remains One Of The Black Community's

The Outside World Told Black Kids When I Was Growing Up That We Weren't Worth Anything. But Our Parents Said It Wasn't So, And Our Churches And Our Schoolteachers Said It Wasn't So. They Believed In Us, And We, Therefore, Believed In Ourselves.

If We Don't Stand Up For Children, Then We Don't Stand For Much.

Just Because A Child's Parents Are Poor Or Uneducated Is No Reason To Deprive The Child Of Basic Human Rights To Health Care, Education And Proper Nutrition.

We're Spending, On Average, Three Times More For Prison Than For Public-school Pupils. That's The Dumbest Investment Policy. It Doesn't Make Us Safer.

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.