“The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.”
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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.
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.
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.
