The Challenge Of Social Justice Is To

The Future Which We Hold In Trust For Our Own Children Will Be Shaped By Our Fairness To Other People's Children.

It Was Very Clear To Me In 1965, In Mississippi, That, As A Lawyer, I Could Get People Into Schools, Desegregate The Schools, But If They Were Kicked Off The Plantations - And If They Didn't Have Food, Didn't Have Jobs, Didn't Have Health Care, Didn't Have The Means To Exercise Those Civil Rights, We Were Not Going To Have Success.

Investing In [children] Is Not A National Luxury Or A National Choice. It's A National Necessity. If The Foundation Of Your House Is Crumbling, You Don't Say You Can't Afford To Fix It While You're Building Astronomically Expensive Fences To Protect It From Outside Enemies. The Issue Is Not Are We Going To Pay - It's Are We Going To Pay Now, Up Front, Or Are We Going To Pay A Whole Lot More Later On.

Be Grateful For Good Breaks And Kind Favors But Don't Count On Them.

Far Less Wealthy Industrialized Countries Have Committed To End Child Poverty, While The United States Is Sliding Backwards. We Can Do Better. We Must Demand That Our Leaders Do Better.