“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”
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It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.
The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.
