I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.
I co-founded the DNC Veterans and Military Families Council in 2005.
If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.
Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.
When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for all - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.
The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.
Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.
We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news.
I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.
Sacrifice is a step beyond convenience.
Quit thinking about your weight and start thinking about your worth and who you are and what you haven't done yet. What you want to accomplish.