Service Is What Life Is All About.

You'd Better Stay Determined, Because That's How Our Ancestors Got Us Where We Are.

I Grew Up In A Very Religious Family And It Is The Motivating Force To Every Thing I Do. I Am Fortunate To Have Had Adults All Around Me Who Really Lived Their Faith, In Helping Other People And Doing The Best You Can Do. The World Wasn't So Wonderful Back Then, With Segregated Rule In The South. But We Were Never Hopeless And We Never Despaired Because We Had Adults Out There Struggling With Us, Being There For Us, And Buffering Us.

Children Teach Us To Be Courageous And To Stand Up Against Injustice.

The Old Notion That Children Are The Private Property Of Parents Dies Very Slowly. In Reality, No Parent Raises A Child Alone. How Many Of Us Nice Middle-class Folk Could Make It Without Our Mortgage Reduction

So Much Of America's Tragic And Costly Failure To Care For All Its Children Stems From Our Tendency To Distinguish Between Our Own Children And Other People's Children--as If Justice Were Divisible.