“We may not all be equally guilty. But we are all equally responsible for building a decent and just society.”

That’s really what my work is all about – bringing kids together.

You cannot look at a person and tell whether they’re good or bad.

If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened – good, bad, ugly, no matter what – I believe that we’re going to find that we are closer, more connected than we are apart.

We must absolutely take care of one another.

We have tolerance, respect, and equality in our written laws but not in the hearts of some of our people.

Racism is a form of hate. We pass it on to our young people. When we do that, we are robbing children of their innocence.

Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.

I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.

Evil looks like you and I. I know what evil looks like, and I know that it comes in all shades and colors.

Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.

My mother and our pastor always said you have to pray for your enemies and people who do you wrong, and that’s what I did.

Love is Love. Better to Love than Hate!!!

Evil isn’t prejudiced. It doesn’t care what you look like; it just wants a place to rest. It’s up to you whether you give it that place.

Learn from these monuments, whether we like them or not, and put them in their context.

When I think about our babies today and them not being safe in school, I think that should be the next civil rights movement, you know, is to ban the assault weapons so that our babies can be safe.

A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.

Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.

Alright, remember, alcohol equals puke equals smelly mess equals nobody likes you.

Life minus love equals zero.

The large majority of faith-based people are decent, fair-minded people. We should not characterize people of faith as the adversaries of GLBT equality.

This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.

The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is.

Any truth, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.