In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.
Guns kill more teenagers than the other big killers - heart disease, cancer, and AIDS - combined.
. . . black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.
As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty.
I feel that we can't educate children who are not healthy, and we can't keep them healthy if they're not educated. There has to be a marriage between health and education. You can't learn if your mind is full of unhealthy images from daily life and confusion about right and wrong.
You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.
It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.
I think that the celebrity is a really important thing, because we have the voice that's recognizable, that can educate people to make a difference and empower them to make a difference, and to also get things in motion with the people in charge that can effect change.
The Vietnam War was so obviously evil and bore down most heavily upon working class youth that it made me think about things more deeply than I had before. It disillusioned me completely and forever about the government. And it made me aware that the media and the government lied almost as a matter of course. But it also opened my eyes to what was really going on in America.
No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.
I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.