We're Spending, On Average, Three Times More

It Is A Spiritually Impoverished Nation That Permits Infants And Children To Be The Poorest Americans.

Service Is The Rent We Pay For Being. It Is The Very Purpose Of Life, And Not Something You Do In Your Spare Time.

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.

I Wasn't Thinking About History. I Was Thinking About How We Were Going To End Segregation At Lunch Counters In Atlanta, Georgia.we Would Have Never Thought About Making History, We Just Thought: Here Is Our Chance To Get Out Our Sense Of Rejection At This Kind Of Racial Discrimination. I Don't Know That There Was A Time That Anybody Growing Up In The South Wasn't Enraged About Being Segregated And Being Discriminated Against.

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 And The Very Dream That Is America.