“Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.”

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.

Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.

You will find what you’re looking for when you are meant to find it.

Everything doesn’t happen for a reason, but you can find a reason to keep going no matter what happens.

Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.

It’s beautiful to find beauty in others but when it comes to you, you ending up finding only faults.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Relationships are like dances in which people try to find whatever happens to be the mutual rhythm in their lives.