You're Not Obligated To Win. You're Obligated

It Is The Responsibility Of Every Adult... To Make Sure That Children Hear What We Have Learned From The Lessons Of Life And To Hear Over And Over That We Love Them And That They Are Not Alone.

I Was Taught That The World Had A Lot Of Problems; That I Could Struggle And Change Them; That Intellectual And Material Gifts Brought The Privilege And Responsibility Of Sharing With Others Less Fortunate; And That Service Is The Rent Each Of Us Pays For Living - The Very Purpose Of Life And Not Something You Do In Your Spare Time Or After You Have Reached Your Personal Goals.

Be Real. Try To Do What You Say, Say What You Mean, And Be What You Seem.

If It's Wrong For 13-year-old Inner-city Girls To Have Babies Without The Benefit Of Marriage, It's Wrong For Rich Celebrities, And We Ought To Stop Putting Them On The Cover Of People Magazine.

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.