Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women.

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.

The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system.

We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children.

Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.

Justice deferred is justice denied.

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly.

Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.

For every physical realm, there is a spiritual realm

This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.

But I do not know whether the photograph can, or does, say things as they really are. Something has been lost. But the representation is all we have.

Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.

Something happens inside of us when we are courteous and deferential toward others. It is all part of a refining process, which if persisted in, will change our very natures.

Traveling is like falling in love, the world is made new.

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

The challenges I have faced - among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother - are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.