Vote, Vote, Vote
“The first fact that we need to understand is that America has a longer history of disenfranchisement than it does of enfranchisement. What do I [...]
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Millionaires and Billionaires Keep Winning and Poor Children Keep Losing
A recent Americans for Tax Fairness press release headline read: “BILLIONAIRE WEALTH GREW BY $845 BILLION, OR 29%, AS AMERICA STRUGGLED THROUGH FIRST SIX MONTHS [...]
Read MorePlease Help Ensure Our Children’s Future By Voting
The Peacemaker taught us about the Seven Generations. He said, when you sit in council for the welfare of the people, you must not think [...]
Read MoreHappy Birthday, Jim Lawson! Our Great Nonviolence Teacher and Leader
“To practice nonviolence is to find a stream of life that allows you to live creatively…The only way forward is to risk our lives…The future [...]
Read MoreRuth Bader Ginsburg: Great United States Supreme Court Justice and Role Model for All
“I attended law school in days when women were not wanted by most members of the legal profession …Yes, there are miles in front, but [...]
Read MoreNick Kotz: Great Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist with a Passion for Justice and a Much Beloved Friend
I am deeply grateful for the extraordinary life and brilliant reporting of Nick Kotz who died in a tragic accident at the beautiful Virginia farm [...]
Read MoreBeloved Friend and Great Civil Rights Servant Leader John Lewis
During Easter weekend in 1960 I took my first airplane ride, from Atlanta, Georgia (where I was a senior at Spelman College) to Raleigh, North [...]
Read MorePlease Welcome Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson as CDF’s New President!
As America is immersed in a new movement demanding an end to racial and economic injustice, the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) announced the appointment of [...]
Read MoreWhere Do We Go From Here?
In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the [...]
Read MoreSo Much Work to Do
As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment this week, I offer these words for all of us who are still fighting to [...]
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