Service Is The Rent We Pay For

Failure Is Just Another Way To Learn How To Do Something Right.

Don't Wait For, Expect, Or Rely On Favors. Count On Earning Them By Hard Work And Perseverance.

We Must Always Refill And Ensure There Is A Critical Mass Of Leaders And Activists Committed To Nonviolence And Racial And Economic Justice Who Will Keep Seeding And Building Transforming Movements.

You Can't Tell Parents To Teach Children The Value Of Work When We Don't Have Jobs And The Jobs We Have Don't Pay A Decent Wage. You Can't Tell Children To Achieve And Then Let Them Go To Broken-down Schools With Teachers Who Don't Care. We Need A Consistency Of Values In Our Public, Corporate, And Private Lives.

I've Always Hated Being Hemmed In Or Seeing Anybody Being Hemmed In. Even When I Was The Smallest Child, I Couldn't Bear Being Told I Couldn't Drink At A So-called White Drinking Fountain.