“Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.”
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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.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
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.
