Service Is The Rent We Pay For

In 1990, When We Started The Black Community Crusade For Children, We Were Always Talking About All Children, But We Paid Particular Attention To Children Who Were Not White, Who Were Poor, Who Were Disabled, And Who Were The Most Vulnerable.parents Didn't Think Their Children Would Live To Adulthood, And The Children Didn't Think They Were Going To Live To Adulthood. That's When We Started Our First Gun-violence Campaign. We've Lost 17 Times More Young Black People To Gun Violence Since 1968 Than We Lost In All The Lynching In Slavery.

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.

We Have The Capacity To Make Sure That Every Mother Has Pre-natal Care. Yet, We Don't Do It. What Is It About America? It Says We Don't Value Children And Families. We Are Hypocrites.

It's Time For Greatness - Not For Greed. It's A Time For Idealism - Not Ideology. It Is A Time Not Just For Compassionate Words, But Compassionate Action.

When I Started Out As An Activist, The Issues Were Much Clearer. There's Advantage To The New Media, But On The Other Hand, You Miss The Ability To Frame An Issue That You Had When There Were Just Three Tv Networks: Cbs, Nbc, And Abc. So The Whole World Could See The Same Police Dogs. The Same Bull Connor And His White Tank. Now You've Got Narrow-casting. The Media Is All Fragmented. It's So Hard To Get People To Focus In A Sustained Way.