The Old Notion That Children

Let All Children Come Unto Me.

Investing In [children] Is Not A National Luxury Or A National Choice. It's A National Necessity. If The Foundation Of Your House Is Crumbling, You Don't Say You Can't Afford To Fix It While You're Building Astronomically Expensive Fences To Protect It From Outside Enemies. The Issue Is Not Are We Going To Pay - It's Are We Going To Pay Now, Up Front, Or Are We Going To Pay A Whole Lot More Later On.

In 1990, When We Started The Black Community Crusade For Children, We Were Always Talking About All Children, But We Paid Particular Attention To Children Who Were Not White, Who Were Poor, Who Were Disabled, And Who Were The Most Vulnerable.parents Didn't Think Their Children Would Live To Adulthood, And The Children Didn't Think They Were Going To Live To Adulthood. That's When We Started Our First Gun-violence Campaign. We've Lost 17 Times More Young Black People To Gun Violence Since 1968 Than We Lost In All The Lynching In Slavery.

The Challenge Of Social Justice Is To Evoke A Sense Of Community That We Need To Make Our Nation A Better Place, Just As We Make It A Safer Place.

The Poor Have Been Sent To The Front Lines Of A Federal Budget Deficit Reduction War That Few Other Groups Were Drafted To Fight.