Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

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 we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

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.