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.

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

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

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.

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.

We survive, in the confusionof a life reborn beyond reason.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.

I do this because I'm an observer of people. That's why I want to be an actor. I'm fascinated by human beings and the circumstances they find themselves in.

Intent is all-important. Your intent determines what happens to you inwardly, in a karmic sense.

Seek not outside yourself, Heaven is within.

In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.

Better be unromantic than thoroughly used and still poor.

All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.