You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

This nation has squandered away four years and billions of dollars in education funding. Our children have been tested to death, forced to regurgitate, and at the end of the day they haven't learned to do basic reading and math or much less learned to think.

I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.