My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.

My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was correct in his belief because he had lived in an America of continual social progress, depression followed by prosperity, segregation by integration, and so on.

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.