If We Don't Stand Up For Children,

I Never Thought I Was Breaking A Glass Ceiling. I Just Had To Do What I Had To Do, And It Never Occurred To Me Not To.

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.

We're Spending, On Average, Three Times More For Prison Than For Public-school Pupils. That's The Dumbest Investment Policy. It Doesn't Make Us Safer.

Every Child’s Life Is Sacred And It Is Long Past Time That We Protect It.

We Are Not Going To Deal With The Violence In Our Communities, Our Homes, And Our Nation, Until We Learn To Deal With The Basic Ethic Of How We Resolve Our Disputes And To Place An Emphasis On Peace In The Way We Relate To One Another.