“As we look forward to the New Year, let’s resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.”

We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.

While we breathe, we will hope.

I’m a warrior for the middle class.

The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women

The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women

You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense.

You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.

No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom’. If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.

We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.